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DESCENDANTS OF

JOSIAH FLAGG

OF BERKELEY COUNTY, W. VA.
WITH SKETCHES

OF THE

FLAGG, KEYES, FOSS, SHIVELY, HUGHES,
SLEMONS AND CAMPBELL ANCESTRIES

A MEMORIAL TO HENRY GAITHER FLAGG

OF TENNESSEE, BY HIS SON

JOSEPH WALKER FLAGG

COMPILED BY
CHARLES ALLCOTT FLAGG

BOSTON, MASS.

PRESS OF T. R. MARVIN & SON

1920

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CONTENTS

PAG*

TABULAR PEDIGREE 6

OUR PORTRAITS g

COMPILER'S PREFACE u

FAMILY RECORD 13

APPENDICES :

A. The Name Flagg; The Family in England . . 55

B. Flagg Ancestry in America 60

C. Keyes Ancestry 68

D. Foss Ancestry 74

E. Shively Ancestry 76

F. Hughes Ancestry 77

G. Slemons Ancestry 78

H. Campbell Ancestry 79

I. Letter from H. G. Flagg at close of Civil War

to a Relative with Southern Sympathies 81

INDEX 85

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TABULAR PEDIGREE OF FOUR GENERATIONS
f 2 Ruth K. Burkhart

1 Josiah Flagg
1 765-1 847

1790-1873

3 John M. Flagg
1801-1849

5 chil.

4 Thomas G. Flag|

1803-1879

5 Esther Joida A.

Minghini & Barnard
1806- 6 chil.

Josiah D. Flagg
1 809- 1 885

Only those bearing Flagg name are included.
Married names of women are in italics. The large

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(OMITTING CHILDREN WHO DIED YOUNG)

' John S. Flagg ( Sallie B. Harrison

1 823-1 900

6 Thomas G. Flagg

1825-1910

7 Margaret M. Riner

1 826-1905 10 chil.

8 Henry G. Flagg
1828-1905

f 9 Robert S. Flagg

1830-1886
6 Martha M. Flagg

1 832-1 9 10 3 chil.

10 Esther Burr

1 837-1 899 2 chil.

11 Virginia C. Darber

1 843-1906 5 chil.

12 Thomas G. Flagg

1847-

13 Daniel B. Flagg

1 849- 1 904 1 child

14 Florence B. Eichelberger

1854-1908 7 chil.

1854-
15 Bertha W. Siemens

1858- 1 child

Horatio W. Flagg

1861-

' Martha £. R. H. Flagg

1861-
Amelia D. Franklin

1 865-1 907
Nelson C. Flagg
1866-1892

16 Margaret H. White

1868-1909 2 chil.

Henry Flagg

1870-1900
Joseph W. Flagg

1871-

Rosa H. Flagg
1859-1893

17 Julia S. McKee

1862- 9 chil.

18 Robert L. Flagg

1864- 3 chil.

19 Burr Flagg

1 child

20 Berenice Trostle.

Large family.

21 Hilda K. Thornburg

1870- 8 chil.

22 Slemons Flagg

1872- 5 chil.

Margaret Flagg

1876-
Josephine Flagg

1878-

23 Thomas G. Flagg

1880- 6 chil.

24 Pauline Gregory

1882- 2 chil.

Louis C. Flagg
1884-

25 Geddes B. Flagg

1889- 1 child

figures indicate the family members in pages 13-52.

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OUR PORTRAITS

A likeness of every adult Flagg of the first three generations of the
Berkeley County family has been included, if one could be located.

There is no portrait known of Josiah Flagg or his wife ; of their
children we have found none of John M., Esther Joida, Ann or Josiah
D. ; and of the grandchildren John S., Thomas G. (son of John M.)
and Robert S. are wanting.

From the fourth generation only the children of Henry G. Flagg,
are included.

The date or approximate date picture was taken has been given
where ascertainable.

» Frontispiece

Facing p. 16

i. Maj. Henry G. Flagg (in Civil War days).

2. Ruth K. (Flagg) Burkhart

< Thomas G. Flagg, Sr.

< Margaret B. (Slemons) Flagg
Elizabeth R. (Hughes) Flagg

3. Margaret M. (Flagg) Riner
Martha M. (Flagg) Flagg
Esther (Flagg) Burr
Virginia C. (Flagg) Darber
Thomas G. Flagg, Jr.
Daniel B. Flagg
Florence B. (Flagg) Eichelberger

4. Maj. Henry G. Flagg and six children (in the 1890s)

Facing p. 40

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COMPILER'S PREFACE

This little work had its origin in the filial devotion and family
loyalty of Mr. Joseph Walker Flagg. Back in 19 10 he met a
near relative of mine, also living in Texas, who had a copy of
my history of our branch of the Flagg family.* Mr. Flagg
made inquiry if my book covered his branch and learning taat it
did not, expressed a strong desire to ascertain where in the
family he did belong.

Although I have delved much in family history and have a
mass of manuscript material which is pretty well indexed, there
was nothing found to help in this particular problem. The
records of Josiah Flagg, as given here, explains how it was that
this branch was lost from the family for a century, f

Only those who have attempted to investigate the records of
Southern families can know the peculiar difficulties involved.
No local vital records of any sort were kept, while the vicissi-
tudes of time, especially in Civil War days, destroyed a large
proportion of personal and family papers, and not a few of the
county records of deeds and wills have also disappeared.

Two descendants, above all others, have entered earnestly
into the work and spared no effort to make it complete and
accurate : Mrs. Sallie B. (Flagg) Harrison of Martinsburg, W.
Va., and Miss Lizzie Flagg of Whitesburg, Tenn. Among
others whose help has been of utmost value are Mrs. Bertha W.

• " The descendants of Eleazer Flagg and his wife Huldah Chandler of Grafton,
Mass.," by Charles A. Flagg, Boston, 1903.

t Since working this connection out myself I find that Benjamin A. G. Fuller,
whose Flagg family papers are now temporarily in my keeping, had corresponded
with a member of the Charlestown branch of the family and had correctly sur-
mised his ancestry. Mr. Fuller however had gathered little or nothing on the his-
tory of this branch.

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COMPILER'S PREFACE

(Flagg) Slemons of King City, Mo., Mr. Thomas G. Flagg, Jr.,
of Charlottesville, Va. f and Mrs. Emma V. (Riner) Willis of
Willis, Va. ; while the descendants with a few exceptions, have
furnished the information requested from them.

In the Appendix have been gathered the ancestral lines of
those who intermarried with the early Flaggs. Full responsi-
bility is assumed for the Flagg ancestry, and considerable effort
was expended on the Keyes line ; elsewhere there has been little
or no attempt to verify or enlarge the data contributed by de-
scendants who happened to have information.

Bangor Public Library, CHARLES A. FLAGG.

Bangor, Maine.
March, 1920.

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THE FAMILY

OF

JOSIAH FLAGG

OF BERKELEY COUNTY, VA.

1

Josiah 6 Flagg,* founder of the Berkeley County family of
the name, was the second son of Thomas 5 and Elizabeth (Foss)
Flagg. As his elder brother was Thomas, Junior, so he received
the name of his father's next younger brother, Josiah 5 Flagg
(whose grandson, Edmund Flagg the noted author, had his
home near Falls Church, Fairfax County, Va., where his family
still live).

The date and place of birth of Josiah 6 is unknown ; it is not
on record at Chester or Portsmouth, N. H., the early homes
of his father and mother, nor yet in Boston, Mass., where there
is some reason to think they lived ; but we believe it took place
about 1769. There are two conflicting statements on the mat-
ter; one in his wife's little German book of devotions, men-
tioned elsewhere, noting that he was 20 and she 17 at date of
their marriage, in 1790; the other his tombstone which has it
that he died 9 May, 1849, a g e d 82. We think the former
record more likely to be correct.

It was believed among Josiah's descendants that his mother
died when he was very young, but we have reason to infer that
the home life of the parents was inharmoniousf and this led to
a separation.

* For ancestry see Appendix B.

t Brewster in his " Rambles about Portsmouth, N. H.," states that Thomas
Flagg took his boys south and the mother saw them only when they were grown up.

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14 Josiah Flagg

Clearly some explanation is needed for Josiah's and his broth-
er's removal from early scenes in an age when communication
was so difficult that they and their descendants seem to have lost
relation with their Flagg kindred till our own day.

According to the story handed down among his posterity,
young Josiah was grievously afflicted with the " Rickets " as an
infant and the family physician prescribed a sea voyage and
frequent immersion in salt water as the only cure. Here "Aunt
Keyes" comes into the story, otherwise Miss Ruth Keyes, sister
of Mrs. Ebenezer Flagg of Chester, N. H., and therefore young
Josiah's great aunt.

Whether she had been sent for from Virginia where her
father had been living several years, or it happened that she
was in New England on a visit ;* or she had never gone South
with her father, but remained in the North with some near rel-
ative, or was temporarily keeping house for her nephew Thomas
Flagg — at any rate she took the two children on the long sea
voyage to Virginia.

The trip wrought the desired cure to young Josiah ; and Aunt
Keyes brought her charges up to the Shenandoah Valley where
her father was living.

Here the father of the boys, Thomas Flagg, disappears from
our history, never to see his sons again ; being lost at sea, if the
family tradition is to be believed.

" Aunt Keyes " as she is affectionately known in the family,
brought up her charges at " Keyes Ferry " in a manner befitting
their station in life, and it should be noted that Gersham Keyesf
the head of the family, once a wealthy Boston merchant, was
then a large Virginia landholder. He survived till 1785 and it
would be natural to infer that his unmarried daughter and her

* For her family history see Appendix C. Her elder sister Mrs. Ebenezer
Flagg died in 1764 leaving infant children; and Ruth, the only unmarried sister
might naturally be summoned.

t For his history, see Appendix C.

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foster-sons were members of his household, though there is some
reason to believe that Miss Keyes had her own establishment.
Tradition says that on one occasion during the Revolution, Gen.
Washington passed that way and the boys saw Aunt Keyes give
him an apronf ul of gold, for the patriot cause.

At the death of Gersham Keyes in 1785 if not before, Aunt
Keyes became a landholder in her own right, but her home was
still at or near Keyes Ferry on the Shenandoah. The record
shows she was taxed in 1785 for two slaves and four horses.
The following year her will was made, and probably her death
came that year or very soon after. Both boys were under age
at the time, and Josiah the younger would come to his majority
in 1790. The man selected for their guardian is believed to
have been unfaithful to his trust, for the boys were turned out
of their home without a penny, while the estate seems not to
have been settled till 1799.

Thomas and Josiah Flagg had learned the accomplishments
of polite society, but had never acquired any trade or profession.
Josiah possessed scholarly instincts, and had a knowledge of
Latin, which was esteemed remarkable in his later years — all
of which is explainable on the theory of heredity ; his grand-
father being the scholarly Rev. Ebenezer Flagg, a graduate of
Harvard 1725.

When turned out to shift for himself, he became temporarily
a dancing master, being an excellent violinist and a beautiful
dancer. Among his pupils was Miss Margaretta Shively, whose
father John Shively,* a wealthy Swiss merchant had emigrated
from Geneva with his stock in trade before the Revolutionary
war, and having prospered in America had purchased, probably
from the Fairfax estate, large tracts of land in the old Frederick
County, Va. (the part set off in 1772 as Berkeley County, and
now in W. Va.). Margaretta, as the only child, brought all of

* For the Shively ancestry, see Appendix E.

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this to her husband, after her father's death in 1792.

Josiah Flagg sold part of the land, located on a section re-
served, on the Tuscarora Stream, about a mile from Martins-
burg and built "Flagg's Mills"; one large three-story flour
mill, one plaster mill and one saw mill, all run by water power
of the Tuscarora, which he dammed for the purpose. There
was also a distillery, with big pens for hogs, built over the
stream.

Houses were erected for the superintendents and hands, and
the place grew to be an important one, many being employed in
mills, dairy, distillery and farms.

The residence of Josiah Flagg was a dwelling understood to
have been erected by his iather-in-law John Shively. It was
destroyed by fire a few years after his death, and replaced by
the present " Laurel Hill," built on its site, by his son Thomas.

Josiah was fond of reading and a delightful conversationalist,
also a great Bible student. He told his colored valet " Dick "
that the latter would be free some day, and proved it by the
Bible. His wife was a remarkable woman and he left nearly
everything to her management. He disliked details and was
fond of social life. They were lavish entertainers. A story is
related how Mr. Magnus Tate of Jefferson County, a close friend,
lent him a book on Infidelity. Mrs. Flagg, " Peggy " as he
called her, took it and hurled it into the fire, saying she would
have no more of that stuff in the house. Her husband only
laughed.

The children were given all educational advantages they would
accept.

Josiah Flagg died 9 May, 1849.

He married 28 Jan., 1790, Margaretta Shively, daughter of
John and Mary ( ) Shively, born about 1772 ; died 10 Feb.,

183S.

The burial place of the children who died young is not defi-
nitely known. Probably they, with Mrs. Flagg's father, John

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. ••* '...'•.:«. c iit:.,m, about a mile from Martins-

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«• • \ '■•,:... 1 •,»•_ 5aw ».»ili, al! run by water povA"

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i . •- < *,.,,/..;. * » r the si.jerintendems and hands, and
.-,-'.*»':•: \:« ip/uortant one, many being employed L;
5. •. . \. . »,«! iy nrul farms.

•• — • • •:*• «.•: I'-Su'b Vi?.£g was a dwelling understood to

• *■?..} • " .^ d bv i.is fuiher-in-iaw John Shively. It was

.•) • ; :y ' ■• .». irw years afler his death, and replaced by

• " ;.* ' * -^ r I H:<;/' built on its site, by his son Thomas.

■ wi, -.•* wi reading and a delightful conversationalist,

. -• - *•* v n*b\ student, s'.t, told his colored valet "Dick'*

& u. 1 ' ; "ovil«5 \»v >■'■'- j-«*ne day, and proved it by the

/;..-; w.ie V; ■«. * -• ;- aikable woman and he left near'y

.i' 1 .; to her v .• • • rneut. Ke disMked details and war.

t s ■ i?\ it'-? * -*y were J aviso entertainers. A story is

... . ~ '<• ^\ M '-'- ... --s fate of Jciterson County, a close friend,

b ■' j •".*• «j Inhdeiiiy. Mrs, Flagg, "Peggy" as -he

. • -* 4'id hurled u into the fire, saying she wov.id*

t that stuff in tne house. Her hi-sband only

•on *< '*re giv*e? v ail educational advantages they would

• '■-;-< :s '- ,: v M^y. 1849.

..;«:-:•-/] ;•?: -r^ . 1790, Margaretta Shively, daughter of
~n<i Mn: y 1 , V^.T'y, born about 1772 ; died 10 Feb ,

The bnrial pl.ve » *■ t.,.e children who died young is r>ot defi-
nitely ii.ow'i, l\\^>.i:\ they, with luis. Flagg's father, John

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Shively, were laid in the small family cemetery at the end of
the front lawn at Laurel Hill where to-day the B. & 0. railroad
runs.

Children: all born at Flagg's Mills, Berkeley County, Va.
(now W. Va.) :

2 i. Ruth Keyes/ b. 17 Dec, 1790; d. Martinsburg, 16 Mar.,

1873 ; m. 181 2, Daniel Burkhart.
ii. Molly, b. 2 July, 1792 ; d. 6 Apr., 1807.
iii. Elizabeth, b. 21 May, 1794; no further record; probably

died in her " teens."
iv. Martha Matilda, b. 13 June, 1797; d. 22 Aug., 1800.
v. Ruhamah, b. 7 Apr., 1800; d. 25 June, 1800.

3 vi. John Magnus, b. 28 July, 1801 ; d. at sea, 24 Sept., 1849 ;

m. 1822, Elizabeth R. Hughes.

4 vii. Thomas George, b. 14 Nov., 1803; d. Flagg's Mills, 11

May, 1879 ; m. 1828, Margaret B. Slemons,

5 viii. Esther Joida Ann, b. 9 Aug., 1806; d. ; m. 1st,

Joseph Minghini ; m. 2d, James Barnard.

ix. Josiah David, b. 20 Aug., 1809. As a boy he was not in-
terested in studious pursuits, a lack he deeply regretted
later. Was a farmer three miles from Martinsburg, and
accumulated considerable property. He d. 24 Aug., 1885,
and under terms of his will, his estate of sixty or seventy
thousand dollars, was eventually divided between the
families of his brothers and sisters ; m. Caroline Burkhart,
2d cousin of his sister Ruth's husband. She survived
her husband and spent her last days with her nephew,
Robert Burkhart, near Martinsburg, W. Va. No children.

x. Margaret Louisa, b. 18 May, 181 1 ; d. young.

2

Daniel Burkhart,* born in Martinsburg, Va. (now W. Va.),

* The family was of Dutch extraction and the name originally spelled Burck-
' hardt or Burchartt. Most of the descendants have adopted the spelling Burkhart.
Daniel's father died when the former was very young and his mother married a
Mr. Davidson and had three children (William, Mrs. Wilson and Mrs. Fullerton).
When Daniel was 12 years old he went to live with an uncle, Mr. Smith of Mar-
tinsburg.

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31 Mar., 1 79 1. Was a merchant in Martinsburg and had sev-
eral farms, with a mill and distillery. In 1853 he organized a
bank known as the Bank of Berkeley, the first one in the place,
and became prominent and successful as a banker. During the
war, according to family tradition, he would transfer his cash
and papers to the home of his brother-in-law, Thomas G. Flagg,
Laurel Hill, whenever the Federals occupied Martinsburg ; mov-
ing back as often when the Confederates came back, in the fre-
quently shifting fortunes of war.

There is preserved a family tree made by Daniel Burkhart for
the celebration of his 50th wedding anniversary 28 May, 1862,
with the following "grace " :

" Most merciful God 1 I beseech Thee to grant to my descend-
ants now assembled around this board, grace to withstand the temp-
tations of the world, the flesh and the devil. And mercifully guide
them in paths of righteousness to everlasting life — for Christ's
sake. Amen.

The anniversary was not celebrated as Gen. Banks retreated,
taking away all the family servants.

Daniel Burkhart died in Martinsburg, 16 Sept., 1874.

Married in Martinsburg, 28 May, 18 12, Ruth Keyes 7 Flagg
(Josiatf) born at Flagg's Mills, 17 Dec, 1790. In her mother's
family record of births, she is entered as Ruth Flagg, so the
middle name would seem to have been adopted later. She died
in Martinsburg, 16 Mar., 1873.

Children : all born in Martinsburg :

i. Susan Davidson, 8 b. 7 July, 1815 ; d. Martinsburg, 28 Mar.,
1842 ; m. Robert Rust. (No children.)

ii. Margaret Elizabeth, b. 25 June, 1818 ; d. Farmville, Va.,
25 Feb., 1896 ; m. 2 July, 1845, James Stephenson Brown,
a farmer and merchant. They removed to Orange County,
Va., after the Civil war and later to Farmville, Va. (4
daughters, 1 son.)

iii. John Daniel, b. 15 Mar., 1820; was a farmer all his life,
his estate " Hill Berry " being located 3 miles from Mar-

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tinsburg ; d. 12 June, 19 10 ; m. 1st, Matilda Rogers ; she
d. 15 Oct., 1847 (2 sons, 1 daughter) ; m. 2d, Mrs. Mar-
garet Gallaher (1 son, 1 daughter) ; m. 3d, Annie Ophelia
Rhoe (living 1918). (1 son.)

iv. Davidson Smith, b. 15 June, 1825; d. 21 Apr., 1830.

v. William Davidson, b. 13 Feb., 1830. Graduated M. D. at
University of Maryland, 1852, and practiced medicine in
Martinsburg for three years. Then his father took him
into the Bank of Berkeley, where he later became teller.
About 1865 on the organization of the National Bank
of Martinsburg he was elected cashier. In 1879 ne
founded the glass and china firm of Burkhart & Co. ; d,
Martinsburg, 10 Jan., 1891 ; m. 1st, Anna M. Summers,
daughter of Dr. Reuben Summers of Martinsburg ; b. 26
Apr., 1833, d. 25 Dec, 1863 (1 son and 4 daughters) ;
m. 2d, R. Jeannie Hullihen, daughter of Dr. M. F. Hull-
ihen a noted surgeon of Wheeling, W. Va., b. 31 July,
1839; d. 9 Sept., 19x6. (1 son.)

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John Magnus 7 Flagg {JosiaH*) was born at Flagg's Mills,
Berkeley Co., Va. (now W. Va.), 28 July, 1801. His middle
name is believed to have been given in honor of his father's in-
timate friend, Magnus Tate of Charlestown.

As the student of the family he received a liberal education,
but no details have come down to us. Making choice of medi-
cine as a profession, he attended lectures at the University of
Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore in 1823-24, the year
following his marriage.

There is no evidence that he received the M. D. degree, and
probably he completed his professional education in the office of
some older physician, as was very common in that period.

It is thought that he practiced his profession for a time in
Baltimore, later removing to Martinsburg. The following doc-
ument, preserved by his granddaughter Mrs. Harrison, indicates
that he at least considered removal farther South.

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20 Josiah Flagg

Martinsburg, July 28, 1835.

We the undersigned do certify that Doct. John M. Flagg, born
and raised among us, having received a liberal education and having
been instructed in one of our first medical colleges, has lived and
practiced medicine for at least ten years in Martinsburg and the ad-
joining country in all the branches of the medical profession.

Wishing to emigrate to some of the southern states [he] will be
found to be a usef ull man in the profession and one that will merit
the aprobation and attention of any enlightened community where
he may locate himself.

The circumstance alone of his being a stranger in the South ren-
ders a recommendatory letter necessary, but where he shall be
known it will render null any thing of that nature.

John S. Harrison
John S. Harrison, Jun.
William Faris
Richard McShirey.

At the time of the "gold fever " of 1849, he started for Cali-
fornia with a party, going by the all-sea route via Cape Horn,
the impelling reason in his own case being his health which was
very bad. Records still preserved show that the expedition was
well organized and equipped and that he was a stockholder as
well as a member of it.

The following paper preserved by his grandson J. W. Flagg,
is further testimony to the esteem in which he was held by his
fellow townsmen.

To all to whom these presents shall come the undersigned, of
Martinsburg, Berkeley county, Virginia, send greetings :

Whereas — Being about to part with our esteemed friend and
acquaintance, Dr. John M. Flagg, who leaves for the distant shores
of California, we take great pleasure in recommending him to the
friendly regard and consideration of his fellow men, as in every re-
spect worthy of the same. A Virginian by birth, of highly respect-
able family, in principle and character a gentleman of sterling integ-
rity — of generous impulse, and if not without his faults, still he is
incapable of deception. Tenacious of his pledges, we have no hesi-
tation in believing that, wherever and amongst whomsoever his lot

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may be cast, as in his own community, he will ever maintain the
reputation of a man of honor.

[Signed Feb. 1849]
Saml Alburtis
Hiram Bo wen
Daniel O. Snyder
James Mathews
Wm. H. Mathews
John O. Snyder
Wm. Luther Seibert
John M. Wolff
Jacob Moory
Jacob Poisel

Was taken sick, and died eighteen days out from Rio de
Janeiro, probably near Cape Horn, 24 Sept.,* 1849, an< * was
buried at sea.

He married in Martinsburg, Va. (now W. Va.), 7 Nov., 1822,
Elizabeth Roughton Hughes, f daughter of Nathaniel and Nancy
(Roughton) Tanquary Hughes; born in Anne Arundel County,
Md., 31 Jan., 1800. Apparently she retained a home of her
own in Martinsburg or it may have been in Little Georgetown,
Berkeley County, till 1854; then lived for a time with her
married children and with other friends till the fall of 1857
when she followed her youngest and only unmarried child,
Henry G. Flagg, to Tennessee and there purchased a home in
Rogersviile. Here they two lived together till her death 16
Dec, 1859. Her devotion to her children was remarkable and
was repaid by a loyalty that was little short of worship.

Children :

i. John Shively, 8 b. Flagg's Mills, Va. (now W. Va.), 2 Sept.,
1823. His father wished him to follow his own profes-
sion of medicine, and with that in view gave him a good
general and medical education. The details have not

* Another account gives 19 Oct., 1849.
t For her ancestry see Appendix F.

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been preserved and it is not known where he studied, or
whether or not he received any degree. He did not prac-
tice the profession, but learned the trade of carpenter and
cabinet maker, and was for many years a contractor and
builder. His residence was in Berkeley Springs,* Mor-
gan County, Va. (now W. Va.). Was also a dealer in
furniture, coffins and groceries.

As the Civil war came on, he said later in life, he was
too busy in his shop to note the signs, and was taken
almost by surprise. When Virginia seceded he felt it his
duty to go with her. It is quite probable he had been
interested in the militia for some time — at any rate the
opening of the war found him serving as lieutenant-colonel
of the 89th regiment Virginia Militia, a Morgan County
organization of which Samuel Johnson was colonel. There
is preserved an order of " Stonewall " Jackson's, reading
as follows :

" Special Order \ Division Head Quarters

No. > Harpers Ferry 8th May 1861

Lt Col. Flagg 89th Regt V. M. will supply Capt. Hunter now
under orders to proceed to Harpers Ferry with 50 guns & 500 rounds
of ammunition from stores in his possession.

By order of T. J. Jackson."

Also another:

" Headquarters 89th Regt V. M. at Bath, Nov. 28th, 1861.
Isaiah Buck — Adjt 89th Regt

Sir you will cause the commandants of companies to furnish to you
forthwith a full report of the ordnance stores in their possession also
the number of guns on hand and the number of guns that each com-
pany may want at this time in order to arm each man of the respec-
tive companies.

John S. Flagg

Lt. Col. 89th Regt. V. M.
A copy teste

Isaiah Buck Adjt 89th Regt V. M.
On verso of this order are the company reports : A, B, C & H,
report 102 flint muskets, 32 cap muskets, 4 Mississippi rifles and 2

* Formerly known as Bath.

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Daringer rifles in use, and 2 flint muskets unfit for service, also other
equipment Cos. D. & H. report need of 40 muskets, etc.

There is no record preserved regarding Col. Flagg's
actual war service. As a militia officer he would not ordi-
narily be called out unless to repel invasion and the 89th
regiment was disbanded early in the conflict. The only
action in which the 89th Virginia Militia was engaged,
according to " Official records of the Union and Confed-
erate armies," was at Bloomery Gap, 14 Feb., 1862, where
an encampment of the 16th brigade of Virginia Militia,
consisting of the 31st, 51st, 67th and 89th regiments, un-
der command of Col. J. Sensendiver of the 67th, was
surprised by a Federal force and many officers taken
prisoner. Col. Flagg's name is not mentioned in the
account preserved. He may have served later in some
line regiment, as it is believed he was at Gettysburg, and
he was certainly in military service in Tennessee at one
time when he took occasion to call upon his brother Maj.
Henry Flagg's wife and infant daughter and offered to
receive them in his home and care for them.

John S. Flagg was possessed of remarkable mechanical
ability ; in later life he perfected some devices, notably a
permanent lowering attachment, for letting caskets down
into the grave, which was patented 9 July, 1895 ; a cen-
tering gauge for wood turners, and a window sash attach-
ment for allowing removal of sash for repair or cleaning
windows. These last two articles were carefully worked
out but at a time when sickness and death in the house-
hold seems to have postponed and eventually blocked
further progress.

He and his wife were members of the Presbyterian
Church and notably strict observers of the Sabbath. They
took to their home and reared no less than three orphan
children.

Col. Flagg was a man of culture and wide reading.
After his wife's death he seems to have resided in Balti-
more for a time in the early " nineties " and eventually

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went to live with his younger brother Henry in Whites-
burg, Tenn., and d. there n July, 1900.

Married in Berkeley Springs, Va. (now W. Va.), 15
Oct., 1845, Rosannah M. T. Hunter,* b. Berkeley Springs,
18 18 ; she was possessed of considerable property, her
father having been the owner of those remarkable min-
eral springs which made the locality famous ; d. there 17
Feb., 1887. No children.

6 ii. Thomas George, b. Martinsburg, Va. (now W. Va.), 12

Mar., 1825 ; d. Martinsburg, W. Va., 10 Jan., 1910 ; m.
1853, Martha M. Flagg.

7 iii. Margaret Melissa, b. Martinsburg, Va. (now W. Va.), 9

July, 1826 ; d. Willis, Va., 22 Apr., 1905 ; m. 1848, David
Riner.

8 iv. Henry Gaither, b. Martinsburg, Va. (now W. Va.), 20

June, 1828 ; d. Whitesburg, Tenn., 9 Apr., 1905 ; m. i860,
Martha A. Campbell.

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Thomas George 7 Flagg (JosiaA 6 ) was born at Flagg*s Mills,
14 Nov., 1803. Apparently he was a tenant of "Mount Rock"
one of his father's farms for a time after his marriage, as the
two eldest children were born there, but later he came home
and the father gave over active management of affairs into his
hands. The old family residence was burned down about 1850, at
which time Martha Flagg the eldest daughter, with the aid of a
servant, ran the piano out and saved it. Most of the family
possessions and records were lost at this time.

On the site of the old home, Thomas erected a large two story
and a half brick mansion, known as " Laurel Hill " from a large
hill across the Tuscarora Stream from the house. This was
covered with a profuse growth of laurel in the old days, but the
Union soldiers dug it all up in war time to make pipes and sou-
venirs, and the hill has been bare ever since.

* She was probably a daughter of John Hunter of Berkeley Springs, whose
family lived near Dungiven, parish of Boverah, County of Londonderry, Ireland.

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."•/>: *. was :*«»>' 'v>ed of « cnsiticnble property, her
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er. d ;;pr: j,:s whir.h n-a«ie trie locaii y fanous ; d. there 17

'i. • i-.'M-'i-. (-j'-oRcr, b. r.iaiMpsbtirg, Va. (new W. Va.), 12

V.t m 1S15; d. M.iriini/rmig, W. Va., 10 Jan., 191: ; ra.

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July, ift«6 : u. V. :h.s, Va., 22 Apr., 1 j.05 ; m. 1^48, David

k.ne.r.
£ iv. I * f : -* *i v ' : vniKi<, b. .* i i<tashu:g, Va. (now W. Va.), 20

iv-e. i»S:»$: •. Wi'.'V'but.; 'lt::ip. t .;. Apr., 1905 ; n>. 3 36c,

y':. it • A. L««rn ptu.il.

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f'..'»;ias G*-on:"iV l ; Iagj (Jssia*. ) wus b.»rn at King's Mils,

\ \.-v , 1 So? Ar^Micntiy he uas a tenant of "Mount Rock"

•■ * of his ia\hor's ianr-. for a time after h*s mania^e, as the

s .• j -..rest rl-'c'-'ja w."^ Lorn there, but later he c»me home

... •: the father £ we over active m~n~£cment oi affairs into his

:r..<is. !>.c -1«J i»V"«y residence wr.s burned down about ;S5<*\at

wi.H'h th'*ie IVh^-ha n.-.-'g the tUcst daughter, wi:h the aid ci a

\^ * . v\nr, ran tho pia?\> o f j fc and saved it. Most of the family

;-'\-.^' .sions Lr d record., vere io-;t at t!ds time.

On the ->i.e uf the o:d ho r .ie, Ti:» ni3s erected aWge two story
. J u ii. !' orii k :i\j)o;oij known us "Laurel HiU " from a )r.rg*»
;\,i a toss the Tos^aroi.1 Stream from the hous'.\ This va~.
•• • ::ed wth a profile i^vvrh ot laurtl in the old days, but the
' '«■ • >:■ soldiers du;* it all up in was tii ie to make pipes and sou-
.',. • \ and the hill has been baie ever since.

• V i; w.ta prrb.'l-; a dapg H ter of J >>in Ji:*nttr cf J *rkels»v Springs, whose
. i .1 va.3lt I'uMg'ven, p-r'%h of H^ve:jkh ( (Juur.rv of Londonderry, lrel:.t;d.

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I. MARGARET M. (FLAGG) RINER, about 1888
2. MARTHA M. (FLAGG) FLAGG about 1870

3. ESTHER (FLAGG) BURR about 1875

4. VIRGINIA C. (FLAGG) DARBER 1890

5. THOMAS G. FLAGG, Jr.
FLORENCE B. (FLAGG) EICHELBERGER about 1876
7. DANIEL B. FLAGG about 1876

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The Mills and " Laurel Hill " are located a mile east of Mar-
tinsburg, and the property flourished under the management of
Thomas G. Flagg. When the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad was
built, a switch line was put in to the Mills and many a car loaded
with barrels of flour or whiskey was shipped to Baltimore.

On his estate one might see the old Southern plantation life
at its best — loyal, willing service from his slaves ; kindness and
patriarchal care from the master and his household.

He was noted for his large-heartedness : his charity to the
poor was proverbial. Was a member of the Presbyterian Church
for nearly 50 years. He himself and all his family were Demo-
cratic in politics and supporters of the Southern cause before,
during and after the Civil war. He died at Flagg's Mills, 1 1
May, 1879.

After his death his property was divided among his children.
Flagg's Mills were bought by Mr. Alexander Parks who con-
verted the old flour mill into the new roller style of mill, but
the Flagg dam is still in use. The home place " Laurel Hill "
remained the home of the widow till her death, then became the
property of his youngest daughter Florence and her husband R.
S. Eichelberger. She sold a part of the land, retaining the house
and 40 acres which is now owned by their son T. G. Flagg Eichel-
berger.

Thomas G. Flagg married, 1828, Margaret Brown Slemons,*
daughter of Robert and Martha (McDill) Slemons of Jefferson
County, born 2 Feb., 181 1 ; died at Flagg's Mills, 6 Sept., 1888.

Children :

9 i. Robert Slemons, 8 b. " Mount Rock," Berkeley County, Va.,
21 June, 1830; d. "White Hall," Berkeley County, 11
Mar., 1886 ; m. 1st, 1853, Margaret A. Hughes ; m. 2d,
1 86 1, Emma E. Lafever.

6 ii. Martha Matilda, b. " Mount Rock," 15 Dec., 1832 ; d.
Martinsburg, W. Va., 31 Jan., 1910 ; m. 1853, Thomas
G. Flagg.

* For her ancestry see Appendix G.

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zo iii. Esther, b. Flagg's Mills, Aug., 1837 ; d. King City, Mo.,

10 Aug., 1899 ; m. 1874, James Burr,
xi iv. Virginia Caroline, b. Flagg's Mills, 21 May, 1843; d.

Cumberland, Md., 22 Dec., 1906 ; m. 1865, Frederick

Darber.

12 v. Thomas George, b. Flagg's Mills, 9 Apr., 1847 ; m. 1879,

Ada Broadwell.

13 vi. Daniel Burkhart, b. Flagg's Mills, 12 Nov., 1849; d.

Fremont, Neb., 15 Jan., 1904 ; m. 1st, 1880, Laura John-
son ; m. 2d, 1900, .

14 vii. Florence Brown, b. Flagg's Mills, 4 Apr., 1854 ; d. Mar-

tinsburg, W. Va., 30 May, 1908 ; m. Robert S. Eichel-
berger.

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Joseph Minghini. It has been impossible to learn anything
about him save that he was the miller at Flagg's Mills in the
days of Josiah Flagg.

Married in Martinsburg, Esther Joida Ann 7 Flagg (Josiatf),
born at Flagg's Mills, 9 Aug., 1806. In her mother's little
German religious book, where alone birth entry is found, the
name was originally written Ann Ursilla Adaline, born Aug. 9,
1806, but later erased and above form written below. Through
life she was known as " Joida." After Mr. Minghini's death,
her father tried his best to keep her and her family at the home
place, and he wished to educate the children. She insisted
however in living in Martinsburg, so he established her in town
and placed the children in school. The mother showed slight
interest in keeping them there, so they grew up with little edu-
cation ; and since Joida's second marriage, against the family's
wishes, her descendants have had little intercourse with their
Flagg kindred ; although all shared alike in the distribution of
her brother Josiah D. Flagg's property.

She and her second husband James Barnard continued to live
in Martinsburg, as have most of the descendants. Such family
records as were kept were lost by fire, and no one living seems

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able to give definite information about either Minghinis or Bar-
nards.

Children of Joseph and Joida Minghini, all born at Flagg's
Mills (as well as two others who died in infancy) :

i. Susan, 8 living in 1885 ; d. before 1918 ; m. Mathews.

ii. Mary Rosaltha, living in Martinsburg, W. Va., in 19 19 at

an advanced age ; m. George Wright, a blacksmith, who

is dead. (10 children.)
iii. Margaret Elizabeth, d. before 1885 ; m. Snodeal

and left one daughter.

5b

James Barnard (sometimes written Barnet and Bernard), a
tailor in Martinsburg, married in Martinsburg, Esther Joida
Ann 7 Flagg (Josiatf), widow of Joseph Minghini.

It has not been possible to learn even the approximate date
of death of herself or either husband. She had died before
1885.

Children, all born in Martinsburg :

i. Josiah David, 8 living in Martinsburg, W. Va., in 191 9 ; m.

and has a large family,
ii. Thomas Benton, d. before 1885, leaving one daughter,
iii. Hester Ann, d. before 1885 ; m. Kiphart and left

one son.

6
Thomas George 8 Flagg {John M.J Josiatf) born 12 Mar.,
1825. In the Mexican war he volunteered and saw considera-
ble active service in Mexico, for which he received a Federal
pension late in life. It is believed that he enlisted at Martins-
burg under Capt. Alburtis,* but the Pension Office records
show only that he entered service June, 1847, an( * was mustered
in 31 Oct., 1847 (to date from 3 Sept., 1847), at Fort Monroe,
in Capt. William A. Talbot's company M, 1st Virginia volun-

* Ephraim G. Alburtis appears as captain in the 1st Va. vols.

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tecrs, Col. John F. Haratramck commanding. The files further
show that he was at Buena Vista 29 Feb., 1848, and at Arispis
Mills, Mexico, 30 Apr., 1848 ; that he was corporal, and later
sergeant and was mustered out at Fort Monroe 3 Aug., 1848.
The family recall his reminiscences of Santa Anna's surrender.

He was a Freemason, his master mason's certificate in Equal-
ity Lodge, No. 136, of Martinsburg, bearing date 3 Dec, 1850.

In young manhood he removed to Berryville, Clarke County,
Va.

He was a cabinet maker, house and sign painter and paper
hanger ; would never use the manufactured, ready-mixed paints,
but mixed his own, and retired from the business when the lat-
ter passed out of use.

In the " fifties " he was an officer in the " Clarke Guards," and
being an expert swordsman, trained the men in that branch of
military exercise.

A commission is still preserved, reading as follows :

The Commonwealth of Virginia

To Thomas G. Flaggy Greeting :
Know you that from special trust and confidence reposed in your
fidelity, courage and good conduct, our Governor, in pursuance of
the authority vested in him by the Constitution and laws of this
commonwealth, doth commission you a first lieutenant of riflemen in
the 122a* regiment of the 16 brigade and 3d division of the Virginia
militia, to rank as such from the 24 day of October i8jq.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto signed my name as Gov-
ernor, and caused the seal of the Commonwealth to be affixed, this
4 day of November 1839.

Henry A. Wise.

Was with his company at Harper's Ferry at the time of the
John Brown raid. It is noteworthy that the date of the above
commission is between the raid and Brown's execution.

When the Civil war approached, he was opposed to the break-
ing up of the Union, but went with his state, Virginia, when she
seceded. He at once moved his family back from Berryville to
his father-in-law's at " Laurel Hill," leaving with the latter sev-

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eral thousand dollars in gold for their living expenses. That
provision being made, he volunteered for military service and
raised a company for the war, which he marched to Winchester.
The authorities however, for personal or political reasons re-
fused him a captain's commission and he became senior 2d lieu-
tenant of Capt. G. W. Myer's company A, nth Virginia Cav-
alry, serving successively under Generals Turner Ashby and
"Stonewall" Jackson in the Shenandoah and Potomac Valleys
in the first year of the war. He suffered greatly from enlarge-
ment of the prostate gland which made riding exceedingly pain-
ful, so that in 1862 he was transferred for disability to hospital
work and later furloughed; being physically unfit for active
service. At the close of the war he was paroled at his sister's,
Mrs. Riner's at Christiansburg, Va.

Coming home after peace was declared he removed his family
to Berryville once more.

Like nearly all of his kindred, he remained loyal to the South-
ern cause to the end of his life. So intense was the feeling en-
gendered by the war that he and his younger brother Henry
neither met nor held communication with each other during the
last 40 years of their lives.

About 1893 he and his wife went to live with their daughter
Mrs. Sallie B. Harrison at her home "Sunny Side" near Shen-
andoah Junction, Jefferson County, W. Va. In 1901 all moved
to Martinsburg.

Mr. Flagg was a man of culture and fond of literary pursuits.
Though a fine and distinguished looking man he could never be
prevailed upon to have a picture taken. Died in Martinsburg,
W. Va., 10 Jan., 1910.

Married at Gaithersburg, Md., 9 June, 1853, Martha Matilda 8
Flagg (Thomas Gj Josiatf), born at "Mount Rock," Berkeley
County, Va. (now W. Va.), 15 Dec, 1832. She was so pros-
trated by her husband's death that she never rose from her bed
again, but passed away 31 Jan., 19 10.

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Children :

i. Sallie Boyd,* b. "Laurel Hill," 16 May, 1854; resides in
Martinsburg, W. Va., where she is active in social, phil-
anthropic and religious circles. Has shown deepest in-
terest in this history, gathering most of the data here
given ; m. Berryville, Va., Oct., 1886, John Thomas Har-
rison, b. (probably in Martinsburg, Va.) 15 Dec, 1844;
his father was a weaver at Rippon, Jefferson County, Va.,
and his mother was a Miss Levi of Martinsburg. John
T. Harrison was a merchant tailor ; d. Monte View hos-
pital, Md., about 1907. No children,
ii. Randolph, b. Berryville, Va., 30 Dec, 1855 ; d. there, 15
Jan., 1857.
15 iii. Bertha Warren, b. Berryville, Va., 13 Mar., 1858 ; m.
1887, Gerard R. Slemons.
iv. Horatio Wayne, b. "Laurel Hill," 10 Feb., 1861. Edu-
cated in schools of Berryville till 13 years of age, then
went to live at " Laurel Hill " with his grandparents till
19. Attended Eaton & Burnett Business College in Bal-
timore, 1879-80 and on graduation went west. Was in
employ of Adams Express Co., at St. Louis and Kansas
City for one year, a cowboy in New Mexico 1882-85,
when he joined a surveying party and studied land sur-
veying. 2 July, 1887, he was commissioned deputy land
surveyor of New Mexico under Surveyor General Geo.
W. Julian and later did private work and had a sheep
ranch 70 miles north of Las Vegas. In 189 1 he went to
the Black Hills, S. Dak., and located at Rapid City.
Since marriage has been a farmer and real estate dealer
located (1919) at Charlotte Hall, Charles County, Md. ;
m. Martinsburg, W. Va., 4 Feb., 1892, Laura J. Herring,
daughter of Ezra and Elizabeth (Miller) Herring. No
children.

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David Riner, son of Peter* and Mary (Folck) Riner was

* Peter Riner, born 1776, was of a Pennsylvania-German family that came over
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born in Little Georgetown, Berkeley County, Va. (now W. Va.),
8 Dec. 1819. He was a farmer in his native place, nine miles
from Martinsburg, owning fine agricultural land and water prop-
erty on the Potomac River, including several saw mills. The
great freshet of 1853 washed away his mill property and so
affected his financial condition that he moved away to Auburn,
Montgomery County, Va., and started anew. Here he passed
the remainder of his life. Was a strong Unionist in the Civil
war and a Republican later. At one time he represented Mont-
gomery County in the state Legislature and was a county mag-
istrate. Was universally respected as an upright man and good
citizen.

The name of the village was changed from Auburn to Riner
in his honor about 1880. He died in Riner, Va., 8 Mar., 1902.

Married in Martinsburg, Va. (now W. Va.), 12 Dec, 1848,
Margaret Melissa 8 Flagg {John M.J Josiatf), born in Martins-
burg, 9 July, 1826; after her husband's death she went to live
with her daughter Emmaline (Mrs. Willis) in Willis, Va., and
died there, 22 Apr., 1905.

Children : first two born in Little Georgetown, the others in
Riner, Va. :

i. George Henry,? b. 10 Sept., 1849 ; went West as a young
man, and located first in Mt. Morris, 111., later in Kansas
City where he resided the remainder of his life ; was a
lumber dealer; d. Omaha, Neb., 11 Aug., 1916; m. Mt.
Morris, 111., 2 Mar., 1875, Augusta Strough. (1 son, 3
daughters.)

W. Va. The family were Presbyterians and planters, and Peter Riner was the
wealthiest man in that country. He died 26 April, 1848 ; m. 1st, Mrs. Mary (Lin-
gamfeter) Hoffman. She had two sons by her former marriage ; and Elizabeth,
Mary, Henry and Catherine by Mr. Riner. Peter Riner m. 2d, Mrs. Mary (Folck)
Lingamfeter, sister-in-law of his first wife. She was born in 1780 and had two
sons John and Jacob and one daughter Elizabeth by her former husband. David
Riner was the only issue of her second marriage. She died 2 Feb., 1831.

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ii. Mary Elisebeth, b. 2 Sept., 185 1 ; d. Auburn (now Riner),
Va., 2 Aug., 1853.

iii. John Daniel, b. 9 Nov., 1853, had measles when he was
12 years old, and a cold contracted at the time resulted
in rheumatism which kept him an invalid with intense
suffering the remainder of his life. Was an exception-
ally bright and good boy and man. His sister Emmaline
took almost entire care of him in his last years; d. Riner,
16 May, 1882.

iv. Martha Jane, b. 28 Nov., 1855 ; d. Tucumcari, N. Mex.,
20 Mar., 1914; m. Riner, Va., 10 Mar., 1874, James
Harvey Altizer. He was a merchant, first near Riner,
later in Salem, Va., where the children were educated, the
two sons being graduates of Roanoke College. Then the
family removed to Texas where Mr. Altizer became a
judge. (2 sons, 2 daughters.)

v. William Thomas, b. 12 Oct., 1857 ; resided near Riner till
about 19 1 8 when they removed to Locust Grove, Floyd
County, Va. ; m. Riner, Va., 19 Dec, 1883, Sallie Ann
Altizer. (4 daughters, 1 son.)

vi. Alice Burkhart, b. 9 Apr., i860; m. Riner, 15 June, 1884,
Rev. Noah Berry Wickham. For a number of years he
traveled for the American Sunday School Union ; then
removed to Oklahoma, where he engaged in missionary
work ; res. Norman, Okl. (1 son, 3 daughters.)
vii. Margaret Catherine, b. 7 Sept., 1863 ; d. Dublin, Pulaski
County, Va., 28 Dec, 1909; m. 6 Feb., 1884, James
Jackson Wall. (3 sons, 3 daughters.)
viii. Emmaline Virginia, b. 21 Feb., 1865; is carrying on her
husband's business in Willis, Va.; m. Riner, 12 Dec,
1889, Simon Peter Willis of Willis, Floyd County, Va.
He was a merchant, a prominent man in the community,
a Lutheran in religion and Democrat in politics; d. 17
Feb., 1915. (5 children.)

ix. Lucy Flaherty, b. 28 Oct., 1868 ; m. Riner, 13 June, 1888,
Rev. Edward Leesing Folk, a Lutheran minister. He
has been located at Mt. Jackson, Harrisonburg, Middle-
brooke, Va., and other places; now at Doubs, Md. (1
son, 1 daughter.)

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x. David Hughes, b. 28 Oct., 1868 ; a civil engineer ; has
lived in many places ; at present in Buena Park, Cal. ;
m. Cypress, Cal., 15 Nov., 1908, Julia Stankey, who has
died. (1 son.)

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Henry Gaither 8 Flagg (John Mj Josialfi) was born at Mar-
tinsburg, Va. (now W. Va.), 20 June, 1828. He was named
for Henry Gaither, husband of his mother's oldest sister. There
is preserved in his family a Sunday School book with the follow-
ing inscription : " This little book is presented to Henry Flagg
for the best answer given to the question What ought to be
the conduct of a Sunday School scholar, by the pastor of the
Congregation. Martinsburg Luth. S. School, July 7, 1839."
He was eleven years old at the time. At the age of 16 he joined
the Methodist Episcopal Church, of which he continued an ac-
tive and loyal member through life. In accordance with the
custom of the day that required every boy to learn some trade,
he acquired that of millwright at Flagg's Mills, his grandfather's
place.

He was sent away to school, attending various institutions of
learning, including Henry and Emery College and Dickinson
College, Carlisle, Penn., where he was a member of the class of
1855, but did not graduate. There he was admitted to the
Zeta Psi fraternity and the Belles Lettres Literary Society. It
is believed that he took a partial medical course somewhere with
a thought of following his father's profession. However there
seems no evidence that he ever obtained the degree of M. D.,
and his family recall hearing him say that he never had the
heart to charge enough for his services to make a living. But
all through his life his knowledge of medicine and surgery was
at the service of the family and neighbors.

The family home had been broken up after his father's death,
and about 1854, he started West with no definite place in mind
but led by chance or by providence, as he was accustomed to

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say later, he located at Rogersville, the county seat of Hawkins
County, Tenn. There he taught school and probably read law
with some attorney, for he was admitted to the bar in 1856 or

1857.

At the Hawkins County bar of that day were Col. John Neth-
erland, Col. C. W. Hall, Joseph B. Heiskell, A. A. Kyle, Frank
Fulkerson, £. £. Gillenwaters, Ap Burem, Col. Samuel Powell
and John A. McKinney, and the young attorney started his
professional life with bright prospects. About this time his
widowed mother came and made her home with him, her only
unmarried child, until her death 16 Dec, 1859.

Hawkins County is in the highlands of East Tennessee, and
it may be doubted if any part of our great country is inhabited
by such devoted lovers of the Union. They kept Tennessee
from seceding at first, and after the step was taken by the state,
offered every resistance in their power to the Confederacy.
Military forces were sent in, and the Unionists were disarmed
in the latter part of 1861.

The occupation and fortification of Cumberland Gap as a
Confederate stronghold and centre early in 1862 drove the
Union element to desperation, and the advent of a Federal
force from Kentucky gave them their opportunity. No less
than six full regiments of East Tennessee mountaineers were
recruited in 1861-62. Mr. Flagg who had married into the
strongly Unionist Campbell family and had taken part by word
and deed on the same side, now left his wife and their infant
daughter with her father about 7 miles east of Rogersville and
crossed over into Lee County, Va., March, 1862, on recruiting
service ; thence going over the mountains into Kentucky with
an organized band of men, largely from Hawkins County. Here
with many others, he was mustered into Federal service as a
private at Camp Garber, Flat Lick, Ky., April, 1862. Though
originally recruited for the cavalry, owing to lack of equipment
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were assigned to the 4th Tennessee Volunteer Infantry, Col.
Robert Johnson. Mr. Flagg was at once chosen captain of
Company E, and so commissioned 1 Apr., 1862.

Early in his military career on 10 July, 1862, he had a bad
fall while on duty at Camp Morgan four miles east of Cumber-
land Gap. This resulted in a case of right inguinal hernia from
which he endured untold suffering the balance of his life.

The 4th Tennessee Infantry ceased to serve as infantry 31
Oct., 1862, and in accordance with the original plan, was trans-
ferred to the cavalry arm of the service and thenceforth known
as the 1st Tennessee Cavalry. H. G. Flagg was promoted to
major 6 Aug., 1 863, and continued to serve as such, command-
ing the second battalion of the regiment till mustered out at the
close of the war. No attempt is made here to give his military
record, as the history of the regiment is in print. It was brig-
aded with the 3d, 5th and 6th regiments of Tennessee infantry
to form the 25th brigade, 7th division, Army of the Ohio till
Jan., 1863, when it was transferred to the Army of the Cum-
berland. On the organization of the Cavalry Corps, it was as-
signed to the 1st brigade, 1st division, and so continued to the
close. It was distinctly a fighting regiment, participating in
the following campaigns : Cumberland Gap, Tullahoma, Chicka-
mauga, East Tennessee, Atlanta and the Hood campaign.

At the outset Mr. Flagg made use of his knowledge of medi-
cal science, serving as volunteer surgeon till a surgeon was
selected; and in 1864 he was appointed provost marshal of
the regiment.

After the war, he was chosen Principal Clerk of the Senate
for the Tennessee General Assembly of 1865-67. He was also
appointed by Gov. Wm. G. Brownlow as a director of the Rog-
ersville & Jefferson Railroad, 11 Dec., 1866, and reappointed by
Gov. D. W. C. Senter, 29 June, 1870.

At the close of the General Assembly, March, 1867, he came
back to Hawkins County and bought a farm two miles from

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Rogersville where he lived, and practiced law in town.

Apparently his membership in the Masonic fraternity dates
from about this time, as his Master Mason's certificate in Over-
ton Lodge, No. 5, of Rogersville, bears date i Jan., 1866.

Though a consistent and uncompromising Republican to the
end of his life, his letter to his wife's cousin at this time shows
a broad spirit, absence of bitterness and grasp of the basic idea
of reconstruction.*

It was ever his pride to point to the political principles of his
father and others of his family — strong upholders of Jefferson
and his theory of democracy and of Jackson and his vigorous
unionism. To himself at least, boldly tearing away the party
labels, it seemed that the Republicanism of his own day was the
true successor of those worthies, rather than a Democracy based
on the disunion theories of Calhoun.

For the next few years it was granted him to practice his
chosen profession and enjoy all the blessings of home and family
life.

In 1876 he was bereft of his wife ; heartbroken and left with
six children between the ages of 14 and 4, he now bravely as-
sumed the double duty of father and mother, sacrificing every-
thing that interfered with this scheme of life. The practice of
law was given up, except in so far as he continued to give legal
advice occasionally, especially to old soldiers. The better to
carry out his new purpose he disposed of the Rogersville farm
and removed to Sneedville the county seat of Hancock County,
adjoining Hawkins on the northwest. Here he devoted himself
to teaching school as the best method of securing a livelihood
and being with his children, living a frugal and self-denying life.
He was always a leader in matters educational : started at least
two high schools, of one of which (Lee Valley Academy in a
rural section of Hancock County) he was principal; and in

* See Appendix I.

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the other (McKinney High School in Sneedville) taught higher
mathematics, Latin and other advanced studies.

April, 1884, he was granted a U. S. pension for disability in-
curred in service.

In January, 1886, with the education of his children nearly
completed, he gave up teaching and removed to Whitesburg,
Hamblen County, adjoining Hawkins County on the south, pur-
chasing property in town still owned by his children, and a farm
two miles out for his boys to work. This last was later sold as
the sons grew up and chose other callings.

About 1890 he joined the James T. Haun Post, No. 43 of
Russellville, Dept. of Tenn., G. A. R. Russellville is four miles
west of Whitesburg. He served the post as commander at one
time. He was also a member of the Society of the Army of
the Cumberland.

In Whitesburg his last years were spent. He never grew old
in spirit, loving young people and ever popular with them.
Though ceasing to practice law in a formal way after his wife's
death, he always continued to give legal advice, taking pleasure
in keeping his friends and neighbors out of court and patching
up their quarrels ; and especially preparing pension claims for
his old war comrades ; usually free of charge.

In disposition he was cheerful and contented, supremely happy
in doing for others. He was always fond of company, the guest
room in his house being open to friend and stranger. In fact
public speakers and ministers were almost sure to stop with
him. He was a great reader, a student all his life and especially
fond of mathematics. He was too kind hearted to succeed in a
business way, twice being brought on the verge of financial ruin
by becoming security for friends.

It would be a mistake however to describe him as easy-going.
With all the above traits, there was a strong will, quick tem-
per and stern speech, while as a disciplinarian he was notably
strict.

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His generosity and charity was proverbial ; the poor and hun-
gry were never turned away.

In one sense at least Henry G. Flagg's life was grandly suc-
cessful; beyond the common lot of mankind. The supreme
sacrifice of his legal career that he might care for and educate
his motherless children was rewarded ; and it was his to see each
one develop into a noble, upright, God-fearing manhood or wo-
manhood. Two of them, to be sure, preceded him to the grave,
and two others after a period of failing health, were to follow
soon. But the father's heart was gladdened that each of the
six was converted and stood before the world as a devoted mem-
ber of his own Methodist Episcopal Church, each one a strong
temperance advocate in a day and region when this stand was
unpopular ; and all of them powers for good in their communities.

He died at Whitesburg, Tenn., 9 Apr., 1905.

Married near Rogersville, Tenn., 13 Dec, i860, Martha Ann
Campbell,* daughter of Nelson and Martha N. (Merriman)
Campbell; born near Rogersville, Tenn., 26 May, 1839. She
was a graduate of the Synodical Female College of Rogersville.
Like her husband she was a devoted member of the Methodist
Episcopal Church.

Died of pneumonia fever in Rogersville, Tenn., 29 Feb., 1876.

Children :

i. Martha Elizabeth Roughton Hughes,* b. Rogersville,
Tenn., 3 Oct, 1861. She has always been known as
" Lizzie." Was her father's housekeeper and the " little
mother " of the family, and began teaching in his school
when seventeen. After her father's death retained the
home in Whitesburg, Tenn., but on the death of her sis-
ter Margaret (Mrs. White) and her husband, was ap-
pointed guardian of the two children and moved to their
home in Tazewell, Tenn., where she still resides, intend-

* For her ancestry, see Appendix H.

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ing however to return shortly to the paternal home, in
W hitesburg. Unmarried.

ii. Amelia De La Fayette, b. Cleveland, Tenn., 8 Jan., 1865.
She lived a beautiful Christian life ; was afflicted with
partial paralysis about four years before her death which
occurred at Whitesburg, Tenn., n Mar., 1907 ; m. Whites-
burg, n Dec., 1895, James W. Franklin of Talbot, Tenn.;
b. Jefferson County, Tenn., 15 Apr., 1867 ; he is a whole-
sale and retail manufacturer of ice and ice cream, and
proprietor of a cold storage plant at Johnson City, Wash-
ington County, Tenn. No children.

iii. Nelson Campbell, b. near Rogersville, Tenn., 23 Sept.,
1866. Worked on his father's farm and received a com-
mon school education at home ; then learned to be a
locomotive engineer, running on the East Tennessee,
Virginia & Georgia railroad, later part of the Southern
system. Was a fine looking, industrious and high-minded
young man ; a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church,
the Odd Fellows and Brotherhood of Locomotive Engi-
neers, and a strong upholder of the temperance cause
among railroad men. His life was lost in a wreck for
which he was in no way responsible ; another train run-
ning into his engine in the yards at Chattanooga, Tenn.,
6 May, 1892, killing him instantly. Unmarried.

Knoxville Tennessee
May 30 1892

At a regular Meeting of Holston Div. No. 239 Brotherhood of
Locomotive Engineers, held in their Hall May 30 1 892, the follow-
ing resolutions were adopted : —

Whereas — It has pleased our Heavenly Father to remove from
our midst, our beloved Brother, N. C. Flagg without a moments
warning by an accident in the E. T. V. & G. R. R. Yards at Chat-
tanooga, Tenn. May 6 1892 by some loose cars colliding with his
engine and crushing him to death instantly while in full enjoyment
of Youth, Health and Vigcfr of Manhood and faithfully in discharge
of the duties assigned him he was called by his Divine Master to
render an account of his Stewardship, and to receive the reward of
a good and faithful Servant

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While our hearts are filled with grief at the loss of one so loved
and respected, our sorrows are lightened when we think of the ex-
ample he has left us of Fidelity to his God, a devotion to his parents,
his sisters and brothers, a citizen whose noble and upright life was
a standard of emulation to his fellow-men. His voice was always
heard on the side of God and what he knew to be right.

Resolved — That in the death of Bro. Flagg the Division has lost
a cheerful associate and devoted Brother and as we are conscious of
the heavier loss of those nearer to him, therefore be it further —

. Resolved — That we extend to his grief stricken parents — his
brothers and sisters and to the one whom he was pledged and was
sweetly cherishing the hope in a few days to lead to the altar, our
heart felt sympathy in their sad bereavement. May God in his own
good time make the entire family an unbroken band in the Heavenly
land where grief and sorrows never enter.

Resolved — That as a mark of respect for our deceased Brother
our Charter be draped in mourning for a space of thirty days and a
copy of these resolutions be spread upon the minutes of the Divi-
sion, Also a Copy be sent to the Family and one to the Engineer's
Journal for publication.

M. J. Reams

Sam Toms

C. A. Trainham

Committee.

16 iv. Margaret Hester, b. Rogersville, Tenn., 17 Apr., 1868 ;
d. Tazewell, Tenn., 25 Sept., 1909 ; m. 1894, Thomas £.
White,
v. Henry, b. near Rogersville, Tenn., 12 Jan., 1870. After
working at home on the farm he learned the trade of a
locomotive fireman and engineer, following that occupa-
tion till his death. Was a member of the Odd Fellows.
Died in Spokane, Wash., from an operation for appendi-
citis, 24 May, 1900. Unmarried,
vi. Joseph Walker, b. Rogersville, Tenn., 9 July, 187 1. He
was named for his parents' family physician and close
friend, Dr. Joseph Walker of Rogersville. Received a
business education in the Commercial College of Ken-
tucky University, Lexington, Ky., entering in Feb., 1893,
and making a specialty of telegraphy. For a time
he had temporary positions, then a permanent appoint-

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I. HENRY G. FLAGG about 1891

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ment with the Southern Railroad. This led to other
positions of like nature in near-by states. Happening to
be in Beaumont, Texas, in April, 1904, just after the big
oil boom there, he went to work for the Texas Company
and has been in that line ever since. Was for some time
manager of the Production Dept., Producer's Oil Com-
pany, of Houston, Texas, until he was transferred in 19 18
to the office of the Company in Tampico, Mexico. Hav-
ing been born with a desire to travel his vacations are
spent in trips to distant parts of our country. Unmarried.

To his interest in the family history and his liberality
this record is directly due.

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Robert Slemons 8 Flagg {Thomas CsJosiaffi) born at "Mount
Rock," Berkeley County, Va. (now W. Va.), 21 June, 1830.
During the Civil war, the well known sympathies of his family
would naturally have led him, the only male of proper age, into
the Confederate army. However his father's large business in-
terests kept him at home, Robert being the miller and in other
ways a mainstay. The latter part of his life was spent as a
farmer about two miles from the village of Van Clevesville on
the estate of " White Hall," which he received from his father.
He died there, 11 Mar., 1886.

Married 1st, 25 Jan., 1853, Margaret A. Hughes (who was a
niece of the wife of his uncle John M. Flagg). She died 21
Dec, 1859.

He married 2d, 10 Dec, 1861, Emma Elizabeth Lafever,
daughter of Benjamin and Barbara (Weaver) Lafever of Em-
metsburg, Md. ; born 12 May, 1836. She is living in Martins-
burg, W. Va., with her daughter Margaret.

Children, by 1st wife :

i. May Margaret,? b. 3 June, 1854; d. 13 Jan., 1857.
ii. Roberta Slemons, b. 14 Nov., 1855; d. 18 Mar., 1858.

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iii. Rosa Hall, b. Norfolk, Va,, 17 Jan., 1859; lived chiefly
with her mother's kindred in Baltimore, Md., and Norfolk,
Va. In 1890 she went to Missouri to visit her aunt, Mrs.
Esther (Flagg) Burr and her cousin, Mrs. Bertha (Flagg)
Slemons, and d. at King City, Mo., 1 July, 1893. Un-
married.
By 2d wife :

17 iv. Julia Slemons, b. "Laurel Hill," 27 Aug., 1862 ; m. 1882,

William H. McKee.

18 v. Robert Lee, b. "Laurel Hill," 15 Feb., 1864; m. 1st,

1890, Myrtle P. Thornburg; m. 2d, 1893, Arie A. Hott.

19 vi. Burr, b. " Laurel Hill " ; m. Miller.

20 vii. Berenice, b. " White Hall " ; m. Ben Trossle.

21 viii. Hilda Kline, b. " White Hall," 26 Feb., 1870 ; m. 1893,

Robert M. Thornburg.

22 ix. Slemons, b. "White Hall," 24 Feb., 1872; m. 1st, 1895,

Stella V. Osbourn ; m. 2d, 1910, Beulah G. Foreman.
x. Margaret, b. "White Hall," 17 Sept., 1876; res. Martins-
burg, W. Va. Unmarried.

xi. Josephine, b. "White Hall," 17 Nov., 1878. Unmarried.

xii. Josiah David, b. "White Hall," 3 June, 1879; d. 17 Oct.,
1886.

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James Burr, son of James and Jane Leah (Slemons) Burr,
was born in Jefferson County, Va. (now W. Va.), 7 Nov., 1837.
His parents moved from Virginia to Missouri in 1851 or 1852.
As a young man he went to Colorado and Utah, prospecting for
gold; returning in 1869 he has spent the balance of his life
farming. His home is in DeKalb County, six miles south of
King City, Clinton County, Mo.

Married 1st, 15 Dec., 1870, Sophy Cushionberry of Kentucky,
who died Nov., 1872, leaving one son.

He married 2d, Kansas City, Mo., 19 Jan., 1874, Esther 8
Flagg (Thomas G.i Josiah*) born at Flagg's Mills, Jefferson
County, Va. (now W. Va.), Aug., 1837 ; died at King City, Mo.,
10 Aug., 1899.

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Children :

i. William BuRKHART,9b. Clinton County, Mo., 27 Jan., 1876.

A farmer near King City, Clinton County, Mo. Lives

with his father and is unmarried,
ii. Edmond Flagg, b. Clinton County, Mo., 12 Sept., 1880; a

farmer in King City, Clinton County, Mo. ; m. 26 Feb,

1908, Josephine B. Gottschall. (1 son.)

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Frederick Darber (sometimes written Daber) son of Fred-
erick and Theresa ( ) Darber, born in Sesser, Prussia, 18

Oct., 1829. Came to New York in 1859. Enlisted early in the
Civil war in the 1st New York (Lincoln) Cavalry regiment,
raised by Carl Schurz ; was appointed 1st sergeant, Company L,
22 Aug., 1 861; commissioned 2d lieutenant, 1 Jan., 1862, to
rank from 5 Oct., 1861 ; commissioned 1st lieutenant, 22 Oct.,
1862 to rank from 20 Sept., 1862, being transferred to Com-
pany I; commissioned captain, 7 Dec., 1864, with rank from
22 Aug., 1864, being transferred to Company E which he com-
manded till the muster out at Alexandria, Va., 27 June, 1865.
Then he located in Martinsburg, W. Va., and started in the
brewery business. The firm was Darber & Krouss Brewery
Company, and he continued in it until a few years before his
death. Died in Martinsburg, 2 Mar., 1885.

Married at " Laurel Hill," near Martinsburg, W. Va., 2 Jan.,
1865, Virginia Caroline 8 Flagg {Thomas Gj Josiaffi), she was
known as Jennie; born at "Laurel Hill," 2I May, 1843; spent
last years with her children in Cumberland, Md. ; died in Cum-
berland, 22 Dec, 1906.

Children :

i. George,? \

ii. Frederick, \ d. within 4 days of spinal meningitis,
iii. Virginia, )

iv. Gertrude Madeline, m. 1st, H. C. Dowling, who rem. to
Cumberland, Md., about 1872 and d. there 14 July, 1895.

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(2 sons.) She m. 2d, 10 Sept., 1913, Franklin P. Haller,
Jr., of Cumberland,
v. Charles Edward, rem. to Cumberland, Md., about 1892 ;
m * I 9 I 3» Josephine Nehring of Cumberland.

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Thomas George 8 Flagg ( Thomas Gjjosialf) born at Flagg's
Mills, Berkeley County, Va. (now W. Va.), 9 Apr., 1847. Was
associated with his father at Flagg's Mills till the latter's death
in 1879, when he received, by will, an estate called " Mount
Rock " about five miles from Martinsburg. Was for many years
a deacon in the Presbyterian Church of Martinsburg.

In 1903 he removed with his wife and three yonnger children
to Gulfport, Miss., where he is a farmer and an elder in the
Presbyterian Church.

Married in Berkeley County, W. Va., 13 Apr., 1879, Ada
Broadwell, daughter of Samuel and Virginia Priscilla (South-
wood) Broadwell; born at Bay St. Louis, Miss., 9 July, 1858.

Children : last three born in Martinsburg, W. Va. :

23 i. Thomas George,9 b. " Laurel Hill," near Martinsburg, W.

Va., 22 Jan., 1880; m. 1902, Fannie L. Grunden.

24 ii. Pauline, b. Berkeley County, W. Va., 1882 ; m. 191 1, C.

L. Gregory,
iii. Louis Charles, b. 22 Oct., 1884 ; is a merchant at Tex-
arkana, Ark.; m. Mural, Ark., 15 Apr., 191 1, Mamie
Gamble of Mural. She d. 21 Oct., 19 18. No children.

25 iv. Geddes Broadwell, b. 26 Dec., 1889 ; m. 1913, Eunice

Benton.
v. Margaret Virginia, b. 26 Jan., 1895 ; d. in Martinsburg,
3 Mar., 1897.

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Daniel Bttrkhart 8 Flagg (Thomas Gjjosiaffi) born at Flagg's

Mills, Berkeley County, Va. (now W. Va.), 12 Nov., 1849.

Through his life he was known in the family as "Tucker"

Flagg. Was a student at Hampden Sidney College, Va., 1869-

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70, but did not graduate. A little later he went to Kansas
City, Mo., where he was at first cashier for Bullene, Moore &
Emory, and afterwards in the men's furnishing business for
himself.

His domestic life was unhappy, and after the death of his
child in 1889, he disappeared and not till long afterwards did
his family learn his whereabouts. He had located in Sioux City,
Iowa, about 1891 and was a dry goods salesman. He died 15
Jan., 1904 in Fremont, Neb., where he had gone to consult a
specialist regarding his malady, quick consumption ; so suddenly
in fact that his wife who had chartered a special train, reached
him too late.

Married 1st, in Kansas City, 13 May, 1880, Laura Johnson,
daughter of F. M. Johnson a prominent physician of Kansas
City. They were divorced, and she died at Shell City, Mo.,
Oct., 1909.

He married 2d, 23 Nov., 1900, .

She has traveled much since Mr. Flagg's death, but has for
several years been a successful business woman in Sioux City,
Iowa, having some kind of employment bureau, under name of
"Mrs. Bill Flagg." She absolutely refuses to divulge her
maiden name or present married name (it being understood that
she has remarried).

Child, by 1st wife :

i. Mary,9 b. 4 July, 1881 ; d. n Oct., 1889.

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Robert Slaughter Eichelberger, son of David Smith and
Mary (Daniels) Eichelberger, was born in Darkesville, Berkeley
County, Va. (now W. Va.), 26 Feb., 1847. His family was of
old Virginia stock owning over one hundred slaves in the period
before the Civil war. In Robert's youth, his parents removed
to Charlestown, Jefferson County. At the outbreak of the war
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Confederate army. After the war he moved back to Berkeley
County, and engaged for a time in milling and farming, and also
taught school.

In 1867 his father and he bought the "Valley Star," a news-
paper, changing the name to " Martinsburg Statesman." This
they published till 1882 when they sold it. Both were strong,
uncompromising Democrats, and bitterly opposed the national
reconstruction policies.

The family home was at the old Flagg residence "Laurel
Hill." After coming into possession, Mr. and Mrs. Eichelber-
ger sold off much of the land, retaining the mansion and 40
acres only. On account of the husband's failing health toward
the end of his life, the family removed to Martinsburg.

In the second Cleveland administration, Mr. Eichelberger was
appointed deputy collector of internal revenue. He died at St.
Joseph's Hospital, Baltimore, Md., 3 Oct., 1904.

Married at Flagg's Mills, about 1876, Florence Brown 8 Flagg
(Thomas G.J Josiah% born at Flagg's Mills, 4 Apr., 1854 ; died
at Martinsburg, W. Va., 30 May, 1908.

Children : all born at " Laurel Hill " :

i. David Smith,? b. 17 May, 1877. Is a cripple, living with
his aunt Mrs. Powel Licklider in Martinsburg.

ii. Thomas G. Flagg, b. 19 Sept., 1878. A conductor on the
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad; he bought the old Flagg
home " Laurel Hill " which was sold after his parents'
deaths, and rents it; m. Cumberland, Md., 18 Sept.,
1907, Mabel Fiery, daughter of Alburtis and Mary Ce-
celia (Ball) Fiery. No children.

iii. Robert Slaughter, b. 1 Aug., 1880 ; an electrician ; res.
Davis, W. Va. ; m. . 4 children.

iv. Laura May, b. 31 Mar., 1882 ; d. Martinsburg, W. Va., 28

Aug., 1915 ; unmarried,
v. Daniel Bedinger Lucas, b. 4 Jan., 1885 ; in Weston Hos-
pital, Weston, W. Va.

vi. Douglas Slemons, b. 15 July, 1888; a corporal at Camp
Meade (19 18); unmarried.

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vii. Margaret Flagg, b. 18 Feb., 1893 ; graduated at Chil-
dren's Hospital in Philadelphia and is a professional
children's nurse ; res. Cumberland, Md. ; m. in Cumber-
land, Byron Dowling. No children.

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Gerard Robertson Slemons,* son of Montgomery and Lucy
(Wiltshire) Slemons; born in Macon County, Mo., 7 Jan., 1853.
He has always been a farmer and cattle raiser ; now has a large
farm two miles out from King City, Gentry County, Mo., but
has lived in town since 191 1.

Married in Osborne, Mo., 17 Mar., 1887, Bertha Warren 9
Flagg (Thomas G J John Af. 9 7 Josiah 6 ) ; born in Berryville, Va.,
13 Mar., 1858.

Child:

i. Agnes Boyd, 10 b. near King City, Mo., 14 June, 1895.
Graduated from Mary Baldwin Seminary, Staunton, Va.,
with highest honors, 19 15, then remained at home one
year and 1916-20 taught English and Latin in the High
School at Hardin, Mo.

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Thomas Edmondson White, son of Graham and Margaret
Powers White, was born in Tazewell, Claiborne County, Tenn.,
15 June, 1857. Was a saddle and harness maker; also a mer-
chant with a general store, in his native place for several years.
Being afflicted with Bright's disease he went to Knoxville, Tenn.,
to consult a specialist and died there, under treatment, 18 Aug.,
1909.

He married at Whitesburg, Tenn., 30 Oct., 1894, Margaret
Hester 9 Flagg (Henry C, 8 John M. 7 Josiah 6 ) ; born in Rogers-
ville, Tenn., 17 Apr., 1868. She was active in the Methodist
Episcopal Church, Sunday school, Epworth League and the W.
C. T. U.

* For ancestry, see Appendix G.

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Her husband's death was a great shock, but she bravely took
up the work of the store at Tazewell, for her children's sake, till
stricken with paralysis 15 Sept., 1909. She passed away ten
days later 25 Sept. 1909.

Children, both born in Tazewell, Tenn. :

i. Mattie Alma, 10 b. 10 Sept., 1895 ; was a teacher for some
time, then took a course in the Knozville Business Col-
lege in 1918 and went to work for the U. S. government
at Muscle Shoals, Ala.; m. 23 Nov., 19x8, Oswald G.
Lillard of Danville, Va., a carpenter,
ii. Hugh Gaither, b. 18 July, 1897. Was at Camp Wads-
worth, S. C, at time of European war, and on return went
into hotel work at Middleboro, Ky. Unmarried.

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William Hugh McKee, son of Hugh and (Roush)

McKee, a farmer, near Martinsburg, W. Va. ; married in Ha-
gerstown, Md., 3 June, 1882, Julia Slemons 9 Flagg {Robert S., 8
Thomas G. t 7 Josiah 6 ) ; born 27 Aug., 1862.

Children, all born in Berkeley County, W. Va. :

i. Robert Dorsey, 10 b. 3 Dec, 1883 ; d. 24 Nov., 1900.

ii. Edward Lee, b. 6 Apr., 1885.

iii. Percy Lafever, b. 24 July, 1886 ; m. Engle. (1 son.)

iv. Julia Eva, b. 31 Dec., 1887 ; d. 22 Feb., 1917 ; m. Sum-
mers Dean, who d. before his wife. (3 sons, 2 daughters.)

v. Catharine Elizabeth, b. 14 Dec, 1888 ; m. Frank Crabbe.
(2 sons.)

vi. James McSheiry, b. 7 Feb., 1890 ; d. 1 Aug., 1890.

vii. Herbert Mayberry, b. May, 1891.

viii. Boyd Allen, b. ii Sept., 1892 ; m. . (1 son.)

ix. Hilda Kiplinger, b. 12 Mar., 1895 ; graduated June, 19 18,
from school for nurses at George Washington Hospital,
Washington, D. C.

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Robert Lee 9 Flagg (Robert S., 8 Thomas G.J Josiah*) born
at " White Hall," Berkeley County, W. Va., 1 5 Feb., 1864. He

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has always been a farmer; at first near Martinsburg, removing
Dec., 191 1 9 to Pasadena, Cal.

Married 1st, 6 Feb., 1890, Myrtle Palmer Thornburg, daugh-
ter of Solomon and Amelia Ann (Siebert) Thornburg ; born in
Jefferson County, W. Va., 7 Nov., 1866; died in Martinsburg,
W. Va., 6 Mar., 1891.

He married 2d, 11 Apr., 1893, Arie A. Hott, daughter of
David Fries and Rachel Anne (Hancher) Hott ; born near Ger-
rardstown, W. Va., 16 Dec, 1871.
Child, by 1st wife :

i. Nellie, 10 d. young.
By 2d wife :

ii. Robert, b. near Martinsburg, W. Va., 24 Nov., 1894.
iii. Rachel Tanquary, b. near Martinsburg, 19 Feb., 1896 ;
m. Washington, D. C, 22 June, 1918, William Philip
Koch.

19
Burr 9 Flagg (Robert S., 8 Thomas C, 7 Josiaffi) born about
1866. Formerly lived at North Mountain, W. Va., but has
moved. Will give no information.
Married Miller. 1 son.

20

Ben Trosslb, residence McKeesport, Penn. ; married Bere-
nice 9 Flagg (Robert S., 8 Thomas G.? Josiah 6 ) ; born at "White
Hall," Berkeley County, W. Va., about 1868. They have a
large family, but will give no information.

21

Robert Minor Thornburg, son of Solomon and Amelia
Ann (Seibert) Thornburg ; born in Jefferson County, W. Va.
Is an express driver in Martinsburg, W. Va.

Married in Hagerstown, Md., 31 May, 1893, Hilda Kline 9
Flagg (Robert S.,* Thomas Gj Josiatf) ; born at "White Hall,"
Berkeley County, W. Va., 26 Feb., 1870.

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Children : all bom in Martinsburg :

i. Elsie Minor, 10 b. 2 July, 1897.

ii. Mary Emma, b. ii Feb., 1899 5 <*. young.

iiL Hilda Palmer, b. 23 Nov., 1900 ; d. young,

iv. Myrtle Flagg, b. 4 May, 1903 ; d. young,

v. Martha Ruth, b. 6 July, 1904.

vi. Elizabeth Whann, b. 15 June, 1906.

vii. Robert Flagg, b. 8 Sept., 1908.

viii. Thomas Solomon, b. 14 Nov., 191 1.

Slemons 9 Flagg {Robert S., 8 Thomas G. 9 7 JosiaA 6 ) born at
"White Hall," Berkeley County, W. Va., 24 Feb., 1872. Has
been a farmer in his native county and since his second marriage
his residence has been his father's homestead, " White Hall."

Married 1st, at Kearneysville, W. Va., 16 Jan., 1895, Stella
Velma Osbourn, daughter of William Blackford and Sarah V.
(Miller) Osbourn; born at Kearneysville, 12 Dec, 1873; died
at " White Hall," 28 Dec, 1907.

Married 2d, near Martinsburg, W. Va., 9 Nov., 1910, Beulah
Gertrude Foreman, daughter of Frank Conver and Ida Varina
(Rinker) Foreman; born near Bunker Hill, Berkeley County,
W. Va., 19 Jan., 1885.

Children ; by 1st wife, born in Berkeley County, near Van
Clevesville :

i. Claude Osbourn, 10 b. 29 Oct., 1895. Went to school until
20 years of age, then was a clerk and stenographer in
Harrisburg, Penn. Enlisted 15 Dec., 19 17, in the Ord-
nance Dept., U. S. Army, as a clerk; is now (Feb., 1919)
a corporal in the 113 Ordnance depot company, at Camp
Merritt, N. J.

ii. Dorsey Slemons, b. 16 Nov., 1900. After graduation from
Martinsburg High School at the age of 17 he worked for
a time for the Western Electric Co. as switchboard in-
staller. Is now a clerk in Baltimore, Md.

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By 2d wife ; bom at " White Hall " :

iii. Lillian Foreman, b. 20 Jan., 19 12.

iv. Frank Lafever, b. 30 Apr., 1916 ; d. 8 Aug., 1917.

v. Virginia, b. 7 May, 1917.

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Thomas George 9 Flagg {Thomas G.* Thomas G., 7 Josiah?)
born at " Laurel Hill," near Martinsburg, W. Va., 22 Jan., 1880.
Attended Miss Wiltshire's private schools and the public schools
of Martinsburg/ Leaving high school he went to work first at
printing offices in Martinsburg, and later as salesman and maker
of portraits. Was for a time in employ of the Homer Supply
Company of Lynchburg, Va., portraits, and in 1904 became a
partner in the Company, opening a branch office in Charlottes-
ville, Va., the same year. Soon bought out his partner and
continues sole manager of the business. In spare time attended
the Law School of the University of Virginia 1907-09, and on
completion of the course took state bar examination in Nov.,
1909, being admitted to the bar. He is a practicing attorney.
Was local white slave officer for U. S. Dept. of Justice from
191 1 till the district was added to the home Washington depart-
ment.

Married in Middletown, Dauphin County, Penn., 8 Jan., 1902,
Fannie Louise Grunden, daughter of Samuel Miller and Laura
(Fox) Grunden, born in Hummel stown, Dauphin County, Penn.,
5 Apr. 1882.

Children ; all except first one born in Charlottesville, Va. :

i. Thomas George, 10 b. Chatham, Va., 11 Mar., 1903.

ii. Paul Macon, b. 10 May, 1905.

iii. Robert Minor, b. 8 Oct., 1908.

iv. Samuel Broadwell, b. 9 Dec, 1910.

v. Louise Priscilla, b. 3 Dec., 191 2.

vi. James Morgan Southwood, b. 10 Sept., 191 5.

vii. Ada Margarite, b. 27 May, 1919.

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C. L. Gregory, originally from New Orleans, La. ; an ac-
countant, and travels for a lumber company at El Paso, Texas.

Married at Gulf port, Miss., 3 July, 191 1, Pauline 9 Flagg
(Thomas 6\, 8 Thomas G.J Josiah 6 ) born in Berkeley County, W.
Va., 1882.

All efforts to secure fuller records of this family have failed.

Children :

i. Katherine. 10
ii. May Ada.

25
Geddes Broadwell' Flagg (Thomas G., 8 Thomas Gj Josiah*)
born in Martinsburg, W. Va., 26 Dec, 1889. He is a stenog-
rapher, clerk and traveling man for a lumber company at El
Paso, Texas.

Married at Gulf port, Miss., 9 May, 191 3, Eunice Benton.
Child:

i. Geddes Broadwell," b. Gulfport, Miss., 1917.

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APPENDICES

A The Name Flagg; The Family in England.

B Flagg Ancestry in America.

C Keyes Ancestry.

D Foss Ancestry.

E Shively Ancestry.

F Hughes Ancestry.

G Slemons Ancestry.

H Campbell Ancestry.

I Major Henry G. Flagg's Letter to a Cousin with
Confederate Sympathies, at the close op the
Civil War.

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APPENDIX A.
The Name Flagg; the Family in England.

In the course of considerable research into the history of the
family in America we have found several traditions regarding
the origin of the Flaggs. The name has been claimed as Welsh,
Irish, Scotch, English, Dutch, Scandinavian, French and Ger-
man.

Indeed it would not be surprising if those bearing it in this
country had come from different sources — that is certainly true
of some common family names, as Anderson, Smith, etc. One
line of Flaggs appeared to be Dutch, another from its location
and connections seemed French-Canadian (suggesting a trans-
lation of the common French name Drapeau), and we have
known a negro family of Flaggs, perhaps through the adoption
of the name of a former master in the old slavery days. But
the fact remains that not a single American line has been traced
out with care that did not lead back with certainty or good prob-
ability to Thomas Flegg of Watertown, Mass.

This Thomas Flegg came over to the colonies with Richard
Carver from Yarmouth, Norfolk County, England, in 1637.

In this country and our own day the spelling Flagg is univer-
sal, but it must be noted that the name, like so many others,
has seen considerable variety. In the first place the form Flagg
was never used by the family in England — nor is it today by
those of the lineage in the old country. Flegg is still the En-
glish form ; and Thomas, the first of the line in America, 1637,
spelled his name that way, as did his descendants to about 1700,
when the present form seems to have been adopted by general
consent.

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In the old English records various other forms are found, as
Fleg, Flege, Flegh, Fleght, Fleggh, de Flegg, etc.

There can be no question that the earliest home of the Fleggs
was in the county of Norfolk on the eastern coast of England ;
the very locality from which Thomas sailed to America in 1637.

De Fleggs and later Fleggs had been prominent here from
Alger de Flegg and his brother Henry, prior of Norwich, about
1150, down through the intervening centuries. Their seat, ap-
parently, was at Flegg Hall in the town of Winterton, until Sir
William de Flegg, a descendant of Alger, sold his patrimony to
go on one of the crusades ; so the story runs.

Those interested may find an extended pedigree of the family
in Norfolk, in James W. North's History of Augusta, Maine,
page 852. There is a break in the actual line of descent in the
14th century, about the time the name was changed from De
Flegg to Flegg, but the name occurs in every age, even if re-
lationship cannot be traced; and the direct, unbroken line is
established from one William Flegg who died 1426, down to our
Thomas of Watertown, Mass.

Branches of the family were also located in Berkshire and in
Kent, England. All of these were of the landed gentry and the
name is found not infrequently in heraldic visitations.

The History of Augusta also pictures a coat of arms for the
family, and others are described in Burke's "General armory."

The study of surnames is an interesting one ; much has been
written on the subject, but the field for speculation is almost
unlimited. There really is no recognized authority, and one
often finds several definitions and meanings for a single name.
The present writer disclaims anything beyond a general interest
in our own name and a desire to put on record the conclusions
of these who have investigated in the past.

Among English-speaking people, family names came first into
use about the nth century and were not fully and regularly
adopted till the 14th. Broadly speaking, such names are of

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one of four different varieties: — ist, personal names (such as
Thomas, Hughes, Jackson, Fitzjohn, MacDonald) ; 2d, local
names (such as Foss [= canal or ditch], Keyes [= quay], Wash-
ington, Kent, Standish) ; 3d, occupational or official names (such
as Butler, Tyler, Hunter, Marshall, Abbott) ; 4th, nicknames or
descriptive terms (such as Child, Little, Fox, Black, French,
Long).

There can be no question that Flegg is one of the second
class : a name derived from a locality.

The English counties had old civil divisions known as hun-
dreds, from early Anglo-Saxon times. Scholars are not agreed
as to the origin and purpose of the division or the explanation of
the name " hundred," but we are interested to note that two of
the hundreds of Norfolk were East Flegg and West Flegg,
names found in the records (with variations as Flecwest, Fie-
west, etc.) long before the Norman conquest of 1066. These
two hundreds occupy a space of approximately seven miles by
eight in the southeast corner of Norfolk, protected on all sides
by the sea and the estuaries of the Bure and the Yare.

This is the neighborhood where the Norfolk Fleggs had their
home, and Yarmouth is the principal seaport of that part of the
country.

This Flegg locality is neither Briton, Saxon nor Norman ; but
purely Norse. Local names, antiquities and social characteris-
tics amply verify historical records, for hereabouts was the very
centre of the region ravaged in the 8th century by the fierce
Danes or Vikings who drove back the Saxons and settled on
the land within the next hundred years.

Our kinsman, the late Dr. John S. Flagg of Cambridge and
Boston, visited this part of England years ago and made a special
study of the traditions. He found a story that a Viking chief,
Rawl Flegg, settled here about 868. It requires no great
stretch of imagination to identify this local hero with one " Hrolf
Flekkr," a really famous sea king of the sagas or Norse chroiv

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ides. And the domain of the chief might naturally come to bear
his name.

If we analyze the name the first part or personal name is
Rolf, Rawl or Rollo, while the second part, the nickname or de-
scriptive epithet, is probably equivalent to old Norse Floki (=
hairy or woolly), or Danish, Vlak or Fleck.

So much for the origin of the name Flegg itself ; now what
deductions may we draw as to the origin of the family bearing it.

The probabilities in the matter of family origin are now re-
duced to two: Was Alger de Flegg of 1150 of the old Norse
stock which had held the Norfolk coast for three or four centu-
ries, or of the Norman race who had come in with William the
Conqueror in 1066 and received all the best lands on feudal
tenure ? Really the origin would be identical in both cases, as
the Danes of England and the Normans of France were but two
different colonies of the same Viking race from Scandinavia.

There is not the least reason to suppose the Flaggs are Saxon
like most Englishmen, nor Celtic like Scotch, Welsh or Irish.

No connection should be inferred between Flegg or Flekkr
as a nickname or descriptive epithet of stout old Rawl or Rolf,
and Alger de Flegg of three centuries later ; for we know that
family names were not in use in this period. Rawl's son would
not be Flegg at all, and very likely Alger's grandfather was not
de Flegg either, but "de Yarmouth," or "de Winterton," or
" de Scratby," according to the principal fief he held.

We may assume that the father of Alger and Henry de Flegg
of 1 150 was a man of prominence, perhaps a military leader to
whom either the King or the Earl of Norfolk granted a feudal
fief including all or part of the old Flegg hundreds, and " De
Flegg " the surname adopted then, and held with the fief for
the next few generations has persisted as a family name among
descendants to our day.

The forename Alger would suggest Norse extraction, but his
brother was Henry and the succeeding generations with their

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Williams, Johns, Henrys, Simons, etc., sound more Norman,
and the "de" itself, in an English landholding family within a
century of the Norman conquest, carries large probability of
Norman descent.

The chance is rather remote of ever learning the ancestry of
our Alger de Flegg of 1150 A. D., as between him and our-
selves lie 22 generations on the usual reckoning of 3 generations
to a century. It is easy to figure that he is only one of
4,194,304 contemporaries in that generation from whom each of
us is descended, specially important in that it is his name we
bear as descendants in male line.

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APPENDIX B.

The Flagg Ancestry in America.

I.

Thomas 1 Flegg, first of the name in America and ancestor
of most, if not all, of the Flaggs now found in this country, was
the second of the four sons of Bartholomew Flegg of Whinbergh
and Shipdham, County Norfolk, England, and Alicia his wife,
and was baptized at Whinbergh, 1615.

The Fleggs at this period seem to have been of the middle
class — their wills show them possessed of some landed and
other property. A tradition unearthed by Dr. John S. Flagg
seems to attribute to them some pride of race. Thomas is said
to have been in love with a girl of station below his own, and to
get around the opposition of his parents, as a young man of 2 1
he decided to emigrate to the Massachusetts Bay Colony, estab-
lished at Boston seven years before. We find him attaching
himself to an elderly gentleman, Richard Carver, who was emi-
grating at the age of 60 with wife and two daughters ; being
entered as one of Carver's three servants at the port of embar-
kation, Scratby, Norfolk, in 1637. It is clear that he was not a
servant in the ordinary sense, both from the social standing of
the family in Norfolk and the fact that right away on arrival in
America he became a landed proprietor in his own right, and
soon held office to which none but those in high social standing
were eligible. In those days emigration to the colonies was grow-
ing to be a serious drain on the home population and religious
persecution was beginning in England; so it is not unlikely
Thomas was technically evading some statute or regulation by
entering the household of a man of family. The tradition goes

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on to inform us that the girl of his choice embarked in a com-
panion vessel; and we know the "Rose" of Yarmouth and
"John and Dorothy" of Ipswich sailed in company. It is un-
certain which bore the Carver party; and the surname and
identity of Mary, wife of Thomas Flegg, is unknown to this day.

Thomas was in Watertown at least as early as 1641, at which
time he was a proprietor, having acquired two lots, one of them
the " 1 st dividend lot " of 20 acres set off to John Rose at the
original laying out of the town in 1636. The records of the
next forty years show him frequently elected to local positions
of honor and responsibility, such as fence viewer, surveyor, ap-
praiser, tithing-man, assessor, moderator of town meeting, and
selectman for eight or ten years between 167 1 and 1687. It is
said that he had decided convictions of his own in religious mat-
ters and was not always in good standing in the somewhat
intolerant church of the town.

He died in Watertown 6 Feb., 1698, and was doubtless buried
in the " Old graveyard," but no stone has been found.

His wife Mary died in 1703, aged 83.

Children :

i. Gershom,* b. 1641 ; d. 1690. His home was in the town

of Woburn [See II]. His posterity probably comprises

more than half the Flaggs in the country to-day.
ii. John, b. 1643 5 d. 1697 ; res. Watertown. Descendants

lived in Watertown and vicinity, southern Worcester Co.,

Mass., Belfast, Me., etc.
iii. Bartholomew, b. 1645. Served in King Philip's War.

Probably never married,
iv. Thomas, b. 1646; d. 1719; res. Watertown. Posterity

centred in Weston, Mass., Worcester and other places.
v. William, b. 1648 ? ; d. 1675. A soldier at Lancaster, Mass.,

and killed by Indians in the massacre at that place.
vL Michael, b. 1651; d. 1711. Also a soldier in King Philip's

war ; res. Watertown. Descendants chiefly in Middlesex

and northern Worcester Co.

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vii. Eleazer, b. 1653; d. 1722. A soldier in King Philip's
war ; res. Concord, Mass. Concord, Mass., and Grafton
and other towns in southern Worcester Co., were the chief
homes of this branch. The compiler of this work is the
6th generation from Eleazer.

viii. Elizabeth, b. 1655 ; d. 1729; m. Joshua Bigelow.
ix. Mary, b. 1657 ; d. 1720; m. Samuel Bigelow.
x. Rebecca, b. 1660; d. 172 1 ; m. Stephen Cook,
xi. Benjamin, b. 1662 ; d. 1741 ; an early settler in Worcester,
Mass., which is the home of this branch and has always
had prominent residents of the name.

xii. Allen, b. 1665 ; d. 17 11; res. Watertown. Framingham
and Worcester, Mass., were homes of this line. Most of
the Connecticut Flaggs were Allen's descendants, and
one branch settled in Yonkers, N. Y.

II

Gershom* Flegg, born in Watertown, Mass., 16 Apr., 1641.
Was a tanner and settled in Woburn about 1668. Was ad-
mitted a freeman of the colony 27 May, 1676. Entered mili-
tary service in the war against the French and Indians known
as King William's war, as lieutenant in Capt. Wiswall's company
and was killed in a fight with the Indians at Wheelwright's Pond
or Lamprey River (now in town of Lee, N. H.), 6 July, 1690.

Married in Woburn, 15 Apr., 1668, Hannah Leppingwell,
daughter of Michael Leppingwell.

Children, all born in Woburn :

i. Gershom,3 b. 1669 ; d. 1753 ; m. Hannah . (Woburn,

Mass., Hartford, Conn., and Hampden, Me., were the
home towns of many descendants.)

ii. Eleazer, b. 1670; d. 1726; m. Esther Green. (Hollis,
N. H., is the seat of this branch.)

iii. John, b. 1673 ; d. 1732 ; m. Abiah . (Augusta, Gard-
ner and Clinton, Me., Newport, R. I., Boston and Lan-
caster, Mass, Portsmouth, N. H., New Haven, Conn.,
Charleston, S. C, and Marietta, O., were some of the
centers of this large branch.)

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iv. Hannah, b. 1675 ; d. 1724; m. Henry Green.
v. Thomas, b. 1677 ; d. 1677.
vi. Ebenezer, b. 1678; d. 1746 [See III].
vii. Abigail, b. 1682; d. 1768; m. 1st, David Cutler: m. 2d,

Stephen Wright,
viii. Mary, b. 1683.

ix. Thomas, b. 1685 ; m. Hannah . (Boston, Mass., and

Nobleboro, Me., were homes of this branch.)
x. Benoni, b. 1687 ; d. 1687.

III.

Ebenezer 3 Flagg, born in Woburn, 12 Dec, 1678; was a
resident of Woburn and died there 10 July, 1746; married 25
Dec, 1700, Elizabeth Carter, daughter of John and Ruth (Burn-
ham) Carter of Woburn ; born 18 Sept., 1680.

Children, all born in Woburn :

i. Elizabeth,* b. 1701 ; m. Jacob Whitmore.
ii. Mary, b. 1702 ; m. Isaac Baldwin,
iii. Ebenezer, b. 1704; d. 1796 [See IV].
iv. John, b. 1706; d. 1724.

v. Gershom, b. 1708; d. 1730; m. Lydia Waters. (Wilming-
ton, Mass., was the home of this line.)
vi. Thomas, b. 171 o; d. 1747; m. Mary (Locke) Richardson.

(Line extinct in next generation.)
vii. Josiah, b. 171 2; d. 1 741; m. Mary Willis. (Providence,

R. I., and Boston were the homes of this family.)
viii. Ruth, b. 17 14.
ix. Hannah, b. 1716; m. Nathaniel Reed.
x. Abigail, b. 1718.
xi. Abigail, b. 1722 ; m. Samuel Estabrook.

IV.
Ebenezer 4 Flagg, born in Woburn, 16 Oct., 1704. A grad-
uate of Harvard 1725 ; he later prepared for the ministry. In
1736 he was invited to become the minister at Chester, N. H.,
in succession to Rev. Moses Hale the first minister of the town,
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town, settled by English Puritans and Scotch-Irish Presbyte-
rians conjointly. Congregationalism was the established church
in New England in those days and all were taxed for its sup-
port. The Scotch-Irish part of the population on Mr. Hale's
dismissal had promptly engaged a Presbyterian minister ; refus-
ing to pay parish rates or to unite with their Congregational
brethren further. The matter was carried to the Royal Gover-
nor and his Council, a somewhat unfriendly tribunal, as the lat-
ter, devoted to Episcopacy or the established church of England,
were more or less jealous of the Congregationalists. The out-
come was permission for the establishment of a separate Presby-
terian parish in Chester in 1740. So Mr. Flagg's position was
not altogether an easy one. He purchased a lot and house from
his predecessor in 1736, a home so ample that he donated land
for the new meeting house in Chester in 1772. His salary was
at first ^120 "lawful money," but this was a period of fluctua-
tion in the currency, and in the succeeding years it was quoted
as low as ^60 "lawful money" and as high as ^1200 "old
tenor," the ratio between "old tenor" and "lawful money"
being at times as great as 1 to 20. On pages 408 and 409 of
Collections of the New Hampshire Historical Society, vol. VII,
is printed one month's charges against Mr. Flagg from the
ledger of John Webster, Chester storekeeper, including rum at
66 to 79 cts. per quart, cambric at $4.40 per yard, etc.

He was one of the great New England preachers of the 18th
century, by no means forgotten even in our own day ; was in-
strumental in the "Great revival of 1741." His sermons were
written out in a fine, neat hand, and one of them is in the pos-
session of the compiler of this sketch, somewhat the worse for
time and the water of the Mississippi River under which it rested
a season after a steamboat accident, when the property of the
preacher's great-grandson Edmund Flagg, Jr., the author.

Rev. Ebenezer seems to have been a liberal minded man. In
those days it was customary to publish intentions of marriage

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through the minister or the town clerk, but in New Hampshire
it was also legal to procure a license from the Governor. The
latter method was frowned upon by the clergy in general, but
Mr. Flagg approved it, and departed from the usual custom of
his colleagues by solemnizing marriages thus licensed, so that it
was customary to term them " Flagg marriages."

In 1793, on reaching the age of 89, he withdrew from the
active pastorate, the church voting him a salary of ,£30 and 12
cords of wood a year, and settling Rev. Mr. Bradstreet as his
colleague in October. Rev. Ebenezer Flagg died in Chester, 14
Nov., 1796.

He married in Boston, 15 Nov., 1739, Lucretia Keyes, daugh-
ter of Gersham and Sarah (Eager) Keyes ; born in Marlborough,
Mass., 18 Aug., 1723; died in Chester, 30 Mar., 1764.

It is not known that he married again, but a Mary Flagg who
died in Chester, 10 Nov., 1783, aged 62, may have been a
second wife.
Children :

i. Lucretia,* b. 1741 ; m. Peter Coffin of Portsmouth, N. H.
ii. John, b. 1743; d. 1793,; m. Susanna Fowle. Harvard
1761 ; a colonel in the Revolution. Physician in Lynn,
Mass. Left daughter only,
iii. Thomas, b. 1745 [See V],

iv. Josiah, b. 1748; d. 1799; served in the Revolution; re-
sided in Chester ; m. Anna Webster. (Chicago and
Paxton, 111., Bangor, Me., and Falls Church, Va., are the
seats of this branch.)

v. Sarah, b. 1751 ; d. 1831 ; m. Evans.

vi. Richard, b. 1754; d. 1762.

vii. Ebenezer, b. 1757; d. 1796; brassfounder, res. Salem,

Mass. ; m. Mary Emerson. No children,
viii. Mary, b. 1759; d. 1842 ; m. Ebenezer Greenough.
ix. Catherine, b. 1762 ; d. young.

V.
Thomas* Flagg, was born in Chester, N. H., 17 Oct., 1745.
Very little is known about his youth. The story of one of his

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boyish pranks has come down to our day : on an occasion when
he had been shut up at home for some misdemeanor while there
was a religious or other service at the church, he crept out,
dressed up the family dog in his father's attire and sent him up
into the pulpit, bringing the exercises to an abrupt termination.

Tradition says he was a sea captain, but all details are lack-
ing, even as to his place of residence.

Brewster in his " Rambles about Portsmouth " gathered some
stories which were not to Thomas Flagg's credit, and, if verified,
would show him true to type as a " minister's son " ; but that
author's gossipy proclivities are well understood. Some of his
statements, such as the elopement are clearly untrue, and no
evidence has been found in support of any of them. There prob-
ably was trouble between Thomas and his wife, followed by a sep-
aration, and Brewster would appear to be a partisan of the lady.

We know nothing as to the time or place of the death of
Thomas Flagg. It is believed among his descendants that his
vessel was lost at sea with all on board.

He married, 7 Aug., 1765, Elizabeth Foss, daughter of Capt.
Zachariah and Sarah (Waterhouse) Foss of Portsmouth, N. H.
Probably she lived at least to middle life as Brewster says that
she parted from her sons Thomas and Josiah in their infancy
and never saw them again till they were married men. There
is, however, a report handed down among descendants of her
son Josiah, that she died when her three children were very
young.

It has been stated elsewhere that the West Virginia line of
Flaggs knew nothing of their northern kifldred ; in fact had
some traditions that seem to indicate that they were an entirely
distinct family. One of these was to the effect that the father
of Thomas and grandfather of the boys Thomas and Josiah Flagg
was a clergyman of the Episcopal Church, forename unknown,
who had come over from England and settled in Boston.

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It is easily shown that there was no Episcopal or Church of
England clergyman of the name settled in Boston in the 18th
century, but the tradition is curiously verified when we recall
that the boys' grandfather was a minister of the "established
church " of New England (Congregational) while if that term
were used in Virginia it would mean Episcopacy ; and while he
was never settled in Boston he may have lived there between
1725 and 1736, and certainly was married there; as Gersham
Keyes, his father-in-law, was at the time a leading Boston mer-
chant.

Again, the family tradition about "Aunt Keyes" and her
care of the boys which was unexplainable from the records kept
in the family, becomes entirely clear when investigations in the
North show her to have been the children's near relative.

Children of Thomas and Elizabeth (Foss) Flagg :

i. Thomas, 6 b. about 1767. He participated in the early ex-
periences of his brother Josiah and the subsequent loss of
property. Later he settled in Charlestown, Jefferson
County, Va. (now W. Va.), where he opened an inn and
prospered. His descendants* have been prominent in
that town, though there are none of the name there to-day.
It was intended to include their history in this work, but
no one of that line has manifested the least interest.

ii. Josiah, b. about 1769. [See page 13.]
iii. John. The descendants of Josiah have a tradition that
there was a third brother, John, who was not taken South
by Aunt Keyes but remained in Boston. He visited his
brothers in Virginia later, riding horseback all the way
from Canada, and was never heard from by them after
hisretiup. « (. ^\

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* Thomas' only child was John R. Flagg of Charlestown, wfco married Susan
Hite and died about 187 r, leaving two children, George KkqSand Sally who mar-
ried John Hammond. George H. Flagg was a captain in the Confederate army ;
died about 1905 ; married first Ella Brown and second Elizabeth Washington of
Charlestown, and left two sons, Oscar H., understood to be living at Battle
Mountain, Col., and John Ransom of New York City.

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APPENDIX C.
The Keyes Ancestry.*

I.

Solomon 1 KEYtes, the immigrant ancestor of the family set-
tled in Newbury, Mass., removing about 1665 to Chelmsford
where he served as town clerk and tithing-man. He was known
as Sergeant Keyes (name also written Keies or Keys). The
family homestead was reported standing in 1880 in the modern
town of Westford, which was set off from old Chelmsford. He
died 28 Mar., 1702. Married in Newbury, 2 Oct., 1653, Frances
Grout who died 1708.

Six daughters and four sons ; youngest child was

II.

John 3 Keyes, born in Chelmsford, Mass., 14 Aug., 1674.
Lived in Marlborough, Mass., removing about 1720 to Shrews-
bury, Mass., where he was one of the founders of the First
Church. Was known as Captain, and later as Major Keyes.
Three of his four sons, all minors, were burned to death in a fire
which broke out in a house he was building in Shrewsbury in
1723. He died 31 Mar., 1768. Married 11 Mar., 1696, Mary
Eames, daughter of Gersham and Hannah (Johnson) Eames ;
born Mar., 1677; died 11 Apr., 1772.

Four sons and four daughters ; eldest child was

III.

Gersham 3 Keyes, born about 1698 : the only son of John

Keyes who survived. His early life was spent in Marlborough,

Mass., removing to Shrewsbury, about 1739 and Soon after to

Boston, where he was a wealthy and prominent merchant. His

* Largely from " Solomon Keyes of Newbury and Chelmsford, Mass." By Asa
Keyes, 1880.

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name is found repeatedly on town and colony records, especially
in the decade 1 730-1 740.

One of the earliest important literary works published in
America, was Prince's " Chronology/' and we find the name of
Gersham Keyes on the list of subscribers, which fortunately has
been preserved. In the words of the historian Samuel G. Drake,
" The individuals whose names are given in the ... list may be
justly regarded as the principal literati of New England who
flourished about the beginning of the [18th] century." There
were over 700 subscribers, of whom only eleven took more than
6 copies. Among the 80 subscribers for 6 copies was Gersham
Keyes. Governor Belcher subscribed for the same number,
while Lieut. Gov. Phips ordered but 2.

Our investigations have disclosed no reason for his removal
to a distant part of the country, at a period when such removal
was very rare (unless the suggestion mentioned under his son
Humphrey may be explanatory).

It was probably sometime in the decade 1740- 17 50 that he
removed to Virginia. Certainly he had a legal difficulty with
Lawrence Washington of Mt. Vernon as the latter mentions in
his will of 1752.*

This is the Lawrence Washington who in the same will be-
queathed Mount Vernon to his younger brother George, later
the " Father of his country."

Gersham Keyes located on the Shenandoah River in the
" Northern Neck " or Lord Fairfax Estate, in what was then
Frederick County (the part set off as Berkeley County in 1772
and again set off from Berkeley as Jefferson County in 1801).
Here he established a ferry, known as Keyes Ferry or Ford. It
bears the name, even down to our own time, located about four
miles east of Charlestown. In the old days the actual ferry was
half a mile below its present site, opposite Sheler's Spring, now

* Printed in New England Historical and Genealogical Register for July, 1S91 ;
vol. 45, page 213.

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Keyes Switch. The spot is now designated Millville and the
local light and power company purchased the old mill and con-
verted it into a power plant.

In 1755 Gersham Keyes sold supplies to Gen. Braddock as
the army passed on its way to disastrous defeat at Duquesne.

We find no record of any land grant from the proprietor Lord
Fairfax until 25 Mar., 1761, when Gersham Keyes was granted
ten acres, near William Davies in Frederick County.

There is preserved among the descendants the following let-
ter from George Washington, surveyor to the Lord Fairfax
estate, which implies that a 400 acre grant had been at least
partially laid out to Gersham Keyes some years before.

M Vernon 26th March, 1 762
Mr Keyes

Your letter of the 18th Feb'y was delivered to me at our last
court by Mr Ramsay. In regard to the Warrant which you enquire
after, I can only report what I have often done before that it must
have been returned with the others to the Proprietor's office, if I
ever had such a one, but since it is not to be found there, I shall at
your request declare all I remember concerning it, which is this,
that there was a Warrant directed to me for surveying you (I think)
four hundred acres of land, either at or about your Ferry, which
then stood lower down the river ; but who it was to join on, or what
was the reason for not executing it I cannot absolutely recollect ;
this I perfectly well know, that I did make you a survey at some
place near to where your Ferry then stood, but I think it was in
consequence of another Warrant and that I have had such a Warr't
as you ask after in my Possession and moreover that it was not ex-
ecuted owing to some dispute between Col. Fairfax and yourself
I am Sir

Yr. Hble Servt,

Go Washington.

[Superscription]

To Mr. Gersham Keyes
In

Frederick
Recommended to )
the care of v
Mr. Ramsay )

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Evidently the misunderstanding was cleared away, for the
same year, 1762, there is recorded a patent of 415 acres to
Gersham Keyes, in Frederick County on the west side of the
Shenandoah.

It has not been possible to learn much about Gersham *s later
years. His name occurs several times in Virginia records. On
the tax list of 1782 he was named as owning no slaves and four
horses. He was dead before 1785, and his will was made in
1783. It has not been located, but his son Humphrey was ex-
ecutor.

Gersham Keyes married Sarah Eager in 17 18.

Children (all but the youngest recorded in Marlborough,
Mass.) :

i. Francis* (possibly Frances), b. 5 Dec, 17 19. We have no
further record (unless this was the Francis Keyes who
was on the Virginia tax lists in 1785).

ii. Humphrey, b. 29 Aug., 172 1 [See IV, following],

iii. Lucretia, b. 18 Aug., 1723 ; d. Chester, N. H., 30 Mar.,
1764 ; m. Rev. Ebenezer Flagg [see page 65].

iv. Levina, b. 16 Feb., 1726; m. Boston, 5 Jan., 1743-4, Wil-
liam Swan.

v. Elizabeth, b. 4 Apr., 1728 ; no further record.

vi. Ruth, birth not recorded. She was the " Aunt Keyes "
who took the Flagg boys, Thomas and Josiah, to Vir-
ginia, about 1770. She may have gone South with her
father years before, or have remained in New England
with one of her brothers or sisters. It seems to be as-
sumed that she had a separate establishment of her own
at Keyes Ferry, while the boys were with her ; at any
rate after her father's death she was a property holder
and separately taxed in 1785 for two slaves and four
horses.

We may picture her as a dame of the old school, proud
and conscious of her social standing. When she traveled
on horseback, as the custom was, her saddle-cloth was
edged with gold fringe and her silver tea pot was carried

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in a black velvet bag trimmed with gold lace, hanging at
the pommel of her saddle.

Under the terms of her will, made 13 Sept., 1786, all
her property was left to her grand-nephews and foster-
children, Thomas and Josiah Flagg, who must have been
about 19 and 16 years respectively at the time. One
Thomas Rutherford was appointed executor, and appar-
ently the trust was profitable to him, for the boys were
turned out to shift for themselves and received nothing
while, tradition says, he kept the place. Court records
show that the will was not probated till 1798 and the
estate was not definitely settled till 1799.

IV.

Humphrey 4 Keyes, son of Gersham and Sarah (Eager) Keyes,
was born in Marlborough, Mass., 29 Aug., 1721. He was a
sea captain in early life. On one of his voyages, his vessel was
wrecked off Turkey and he fell into the hands of the Algerines.
After years of captivity he escaped and returned home to find
that his wife who had given him up as dead, was married to
another.

In the absence of any explanation of the removal of a family
of such wealth and prominence to a distant part of the country,
the suggestion is made that the true reason may be found in
this very family tragedy. There is no doubt that he was with
his father in Virginia, being granted land in Frederick County
in 1762 and again in 1771. Probably all the Keyes family
holdings were in the vicinity of Keyes Ferry, established by the
father, Gersham. The Ferry itself was in Humphrey's posses-
sion at his death in 1793 and had probably been received at his
father's death about ten years earlier. In his day the Ferry
Plantation contained 300 acres.

Humphrey Keyes married 1st, Marcella Wade ; married 2d,
Sarah Hall of Virginia, who was born 1745.

Children, by first wife :

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i. Francis ;* was probably the Francis Keyes whose name is
found on the Virginia tax lists of 1785 as owner of 4
slaves and 7 horses. He was a lawyer in Baltimore. (7
children.)

ii. John, b. Mystic, Mass., 22 Sept., 1752 ? ; resided in Alex-
andria, Va., Sullivan County, Tenn., and other places ; d.
1839 ; m. 1773, Luvica Talbot. (5 sons and 9 daus.)

By 2d wife :

iii. Gersham: inherited Keyes Ferry and sold it out of the
family, 1820 or later : m. 1st, Susan Ward (1 son); m.
2d, (2 sons) ; m. 3d, (1 son). A great-grand-
son, Humphrey Keyes Ambler, is living in Charlestown,
W. Va. (19 18).

iv. Thomas, Methodist preacher in Jefferson County, Va. ; re-
ceived 370 acres by his father's will.

v. Humphrey, res.- in Greenbrier County, Va. ; m. Fau-
cet. (3 sons, 2 daus.)

vi. Sarah, m. Wright (or White) and removed to Ohio.

vii. Lucretia, m. Piles (or Pyles) and removed to Ken-
tucky,
viii. Eliza (or Elizabeth), b. 1773 ; m. Capt. peorge North.

ix. Catharine, > one m. David Humphreys, the other m. Capt.

x. Ruth, > John O'Bannon.

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APPENDIX D.
The Foss Ancestry.
I.
John 1 Foss, ancestor of the family in America was born in
Rebe, Denmark, 3 Jan., 1638, son of David Laurentson Foss,
a Norwegian. He settled first in Boston, and removed to Ports-
mouth, N. H., where he was located in 1657; later lived in
Dover and Rye, N. H.

Married 1st, Mary Chad bourn ; married 2d, Sarah, widow of
James Goss ; married 3d. Elizabeth (Berry), widow of John
Locke.

Nine sons and 4 daughters, of whom the eldest son was

II.
John* Foss, Jr., resided in Newcastle, N. H.; died before

1 718; married 1st, Mary ; married 2d, Abigail Berry.

Eight sons and 3 daughters, of whom the second son was

III.

Zachariah* Foss, born in Newcastle, N. H., about 171 1 ;
mariner; pilot of schooner "Abigail" in Louisburg expedition
1745 ; died May, 1791 ; married 1st, 22 Aug., 1734, Sarah

Waterhouse of Portsmouth, N. H. ; married 2d, Joannah ,

who was his wife in 1748; married 3d, Sarah Brewster, who
was his wife Apr., 1756; married 4th, in Boston, 2 Oct., 1756,
Hannah Adams.

Children (probably not in order of birth) :

Henry,* bapt. at Portsmouth, 1751 or 1754; a soldier at

Newcastle, 1757-58.
Zachariah, b. Portsmouth, 1741.
Sarah, m. 1764, Capt. John Cushman.
Elizabeth, b. about 1745 ; m. Thomas Flagg [see page 13].

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Joanna, bapt. 1747.
Joannah, b. Portsmouth, 1749.
Zachariah, b. Portsmouth, 1751.
Margaret, bapt. Portsmouth, 1755.
Olive, bapt. Portsmouth, 1758.
Mary, m. Joseph Young.
Ruth, m. William Brewster.
Abigail, bapt. Portsmouth, 1762.

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APPENDIX E.
The Shively Ancestry.

John 1 Shively was a Swiss merchant who came to America
with his stock in trade before the Revolution. Having pros-
pered in business, he purchased a large tract of land in Frederick
County, Va. (the part now Berkeley County, W. Va.). This is
the family tradition.

It has been possible to learn very little about the family. In
the home of the late Major Henry G. Flagg of Tennessee, John
Shively's great-grandson, there is preserved a curious little de-
votional work in German, "Das kleine davidische psalterspiel
der kinder Zions," printed at Philadelphia in 1781. Its end
papers and fly-leaves are covered with names and records, among
which we find " Mary Shively her book " and " Margaretta Flagg
her book," and births of the children of Josiah and Margaretta
Flagg — it being the only source now extant for this information.

It would seem to indicate that German was the language of
the elder Shivelys, or at least they were familiar with it, but
whether this means that John Shively came originally from
eastern or German-speaking Switzerland, or that he married a
Pennsylvania-German, we cannot say. Among the records are
the death of John Shively, 4 Nov., 1792, aged 55, and of Mary
Shively, 10 May, 1785, aged 48. We infer that Mary was wife
of John and mother of Margaretta. No Shively children are
recorded, but family tradition has it that Margaretta was the
only child.

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APPENDIX F.

The Hughes Ancestry.

Nathaniel Hughes died 15 Dec, 1807. Married 27 Dec,
1796, Nancy (Roughton) Tanquary. She was born 21 Oct.,
1776, a daughter of Job Roughton (born 21 Apr., 1742, died 1
May, 1783) and his wife Nancy Griffin (born 8 May, 1752, died
22 Nov., 1793), who were married 26 Oct., 1773. Nancy
Roughton had married for her first husband, 9 June, 1793, Ben-
jamin Tanquary, who died 4 Mar., 1796, leaving an only child,
Benjamin Tanquary, Jr. (born 28 Aug., 1796, married 11 Sept.,
1820, Lydia Hackney).

Children of Nathaniel and Nancy (Roughton) Tanquary
Hughes :

i. Ari Ann, b. 6 July, 1798 ; m. 25 Dec, 1815, Henry Gaither.
ii. Elizabeth Roughton, b. in Ann Arundel Co., Md., 31

Jan., 1800; m. 7 Nov., 1822, John M. Flagg [see page

19].
iii. David,* b. 25 Dec, 1801 ; m. 22 Nov., 1820, Margaret

Mong.
iv. Nathaniel,* b. 22 Nov., 1803; d. 9 Apr., ; m. 8 July,

1824, Ann Smith, who d. 13 July, 1838.
v. Frances Ann R., b. 5 Mar., 1806; res. Zanesville, Ohio,

after second marriage; m. 1st, 25 Nov., 1824, Lewis

Niell ; m. 2d, Berryhill. No children.

vi. Job, b. 4 Mar., 1808; d. 11 Dec, 1818.

* Either David or Nathaniel Hughes, Jr., was father of Margaret A. Hughes,
first wife of Robert Slemons Flagg [see page 41]. One of them was living in
1853 in Smithburg, Washington County, Md., with wife and family. The latter
included a son Joseph who began a course for the ministry in Gettysburg, a
daughter Lizzie who made a runaway marriage with a Mr. West in that year, and
Ann R.

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APPENDIX G.

The Slemons Ancestry.
I.
Thomas 1 Slemons, of Scotch and Irish descent; married 18
Jan., 1770, Margaret Brown.

II.

Robert* Slemons, son of the above, was born 10 Nov., 1784.
Having many slaves he removed from Pennsylvania to Virginia
when the former state abolished slavery, settling in Jefferson
County. Became involved financially by going security for
friends, lost his property and removed to Maryland. Died in
Maryland, 24 Dec., 1859. Married 22 Oct., 1807, Martha
McDill; born 6 Jan., 1785; died in Randolph County, Mo., 7
Sept., 1853. (Her mother, Jane Montgomery, was a first cousin
of Gen. Richard Montgomery of Revolutionary fame.)

Children :

Jane Leah,* b. 25 Dec, 1808; d. 16 Oct., 1876 ; m. James
Burr, Sr. [see page 42].

Margaret Brown, b. 2 Feb., 181 1 ; d. 6 Sept., 1888 ; m.
Thomas G. Flagg [see page 25].

Montgomery, b. 3 May, 1813; rem. to Missouri about
1852; d. 17 Oct., 1901; m. 23 Feb., 1837, Lucy Wilt-
shire of Jefferson County, Va.; b. 9 Oct., 1818; d. 17
May, 1902. Children : Montgomery ',* ranchman and cat-
tle dealer in Texas. Gerard R., m. Bertha W. Flagg
[see page 30]. Robert.

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APPENDIX H.
The Campbell Ancestry.
I-II.
Robert* Campbell landed in Philadelphia in 1725 with his
mother and brothers William and Archibald and sister Catharine.
Tradition says that the father had died on the passage over.
The family was of course of Scottish origin, but had emigrated
to northern Ireland, probably at the time of the great influx of
Scotch-Irish. There Robert was born, in County Down, about
171 8. From Philadelphia he went to Prince Edward County,
Va., and thence to Rockbridge County. In 1776 he removed
with his sons to Carter's Valley, in what is now Tennessee, and
there he afterwards lived, and died 24 Dec, 18 10. His first
wife was Leticia Crockett who died in Prince Edward County,
Va. ; his second wife was Jane Allison who survived him about
10 years. He had 5 sons and 5 daughters.

III.

Robert 3 Campbell, Jr., son of Robert and Jane (Allison)
Campbell, was born 3 Jan., 1761, came with his father to Car-
ter's Valley, Hawkins County, Tenn., in 1776. Was a soldier
in the Revolution, and later appointed by the Governor of Vir-
ginia, who claimed jurisdiction, as one of the first magistrates in
that new region.

His farm was from 7 to 10 miles northeast of the present
town of Rogersville, Hawkins County, Tenn. Married in Abing-
don, Va., 18 Oct., 1785, Mary Young, born in Rockbridge
County, Va., 12 Feb., 1765. (Her mother, Mrs. Elizabeth
(Long) Young , who was born in 1744 and died 1835, remem-
bered seeing Braddock and Washington pass her house in 1755.)
Robert Campbell, Jr., died 29 Dec, 1841, and his wife Mary
died 1 Apr., 1841, after a married life of 55 years. They were
parents to 7 sons and 5 daughters.

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IV.

Nelson 4 Campbell, son of Robert, Jr., and Mary (Young)
Campbell, was born in Hawkins County, Tenn., 21 Oct., 1806.
He was owner of a large plantation 7 miles northeast of Rog-
ersville, Tenn., the county seat. He had a good education, was
a Freemason, a magistrate for many years and a lifelong Presby-
terian. During the Civil war he and his family were strong
Unionists and suffered much for the cause, finding his property
well nigh ruined at its close. Two sons and one son-in-law were
in the Union army. He died 3 May, 1889. Married 7 Oct.,
1830, Martha Nicholas Merriman, born 27 Nov., 1805. She
was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. Died 6 June,
1890. Their wedded life covered 59 years. Three sons and
two daughters were born to them.

She was the daughter of Jesse and Polly (Lamb) Merriman.
Jesse Merriman came from near Petersburg, Va., in the early
19th century and settled in Hawkins County. His wife was
the widow of one Wells, by whom she had several children.

V.
Martha Anns Campbell, daughter of Nelson and Martha
N. (Merriman) Campbell and wife of Major Henry G. Flagg
[see page 38].

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APPENDIX I.

A Letter from Maj. H. G. Flagg.

Senate Chamber,
Nashville, Nov. n th , 1865.
Miss N. A. Kinkade*

Dear Cousin Nann,
Having a few moments of leisure I have determined to dedi-
cate them in writing a letter to you. And I will meet you at the
very threshold with the spirit of an open frankness and a manly
candor. I declare I have been impelled to take this step by
four substantial reasons, to wit — 1st, Because (I place the
strongest first) as a cousin I have ever esteemed you highly
and certainly do love you as such : 2d, Because the terrible events
of the last four years in which we have been mutual suf-
ferers must not forever divide us : 3d, Because the past with
whatever of folly or wisdom it may have contained, is now ir-
revocably gone and, alone, is a storehouse from whence we may
draw lessons of practical wisdom to govern our present actions,
and determine them, for the exigencies of the advancing future :
And 4th, Because you are possessed of too much native sense,
refinement and goodness of heart to misinterpret the sentiments
which prompt me to the act, or set them down to aught but
good and proper motives. I have already sent you a number of
papers and public documents which, although a woman, I hope
you will take the time and be at the trouble to investigate. I
am not one of those who think so meanly of woman, as to sup-
pose she is fit alone for a drudge or the plaything of the hour.
But on the contrary as a rational being in her intellectual capac-
ity I regard her as inferior to man alone in those sterner and

* Miss Nannie Kinkade, 1st cousin on her mother's side, bridesmaid and near
neighbor of Martha A. (Campbell) Flagg in i860, was later the wife of George
Etter. She is still living in Rogersville, Tenn. (19 19), and returned this letter to
the writer's daughter.

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more terrible attributes, proper indeed in themselves, which im-
pel him towards his aim, regardless of consequences to himself
and of others, and which bid him, from an inexorable necessity,
often to close up the avenues to his heart, and, for the time
being, to banish those high and lofty sentiments which should
ever underlie and form the basis of all correct human actions.
With woman this inexorable necessity does not exist, and in her
therefore, thank God, these attributes are never found. But
she is emphatically a creature of sentiment and feeling, poised
and adjusted to the scale of the most delicate balance. And
her benevolence, her world wide piety — her long suffering with-
out murmur, her kindness returned, like heaped up coals of fire,
for wrongs she has felt — her love permeating the earth as its
better being — her generosity and goodness of heart midst the
fierce contentions of life, ever ignoring self, has erected a mon-
ument to her, broad as the Earth, high as the Heaven, and more
enduring than time itself.

When war, advancing with fierce and rapid strides from the
cotton states broke over our tall blue mountains and fell like a
thunderclap in peaceful vallies, a fearful and terrible issue was
made. Remember when men act seriously and from delibera-
tion they always act from principle. I met this terrible issue
in the exercise of the attributes of my manhood, as a man. I
know I met it honestly and I hope I met it bravely. I met
my brave foes, face to face, sternly, terribly, but fairly and openly
on the battle-field, and they were vanquished. The terrible con-
flict is ended — The smoke of the battle-field has been lifted up
and the sun of peace shines down once more upon the Earth.
And shall man, the pismire, behold this sublime spectacle and
still cherish in his heart those fearful animosities engendered by
the fierce and dreadful conflict. I hope not — I, for one, shall
not.

With us, as a people, it is useless now to canvass the justice
or injustice of the war. That is gone — It is over and buried

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forever. And the doctrines and causes which produced it have
passed away also. They belong to the historian. The ravages
of the war alone now claim our gravest consideration and atten-
tion. To these, therefore, we cannot close our eyes. We be-
hold them on every side and they are stern realities. As a wise
and prudent people we must address ourselves earnestly to the
noble work of restoring, by industry, prudence and economy,
our lost and ruined resources and cause our great state to rise
up from the wreck greater, richer and more powerful than before.
We, at this moment, present the extraordinary spectacle of a
people once rich, but impoverished, in the midst of wealth incal-
culable, developed and undeveloped. But why is this? The
answer is simple. The very basis of our productive wealth as
well as the annually accruing resources therefrom have been
totally swept away in the last five years. It is all gone and we
have to begin anew. To show this clearly I will resort to but
eight items which will develop our fearful losses by the war. I
assume the census of i860 as the basis of my calculation.

There were then in the state 275,719 slaves. Taking the
valuation of 1859 P cr Comptroller's Report at, $854, we have

2 7S»7 I 9 slaves at $854 $235,464,026

The school fund and the annual sum

for distribution for five years, all

of which is a total loss.

Annual sum for distribution for five

years

$220,000x5 1,100,000)

Principal 1,500,000 ) 2,600,000

Loss by depreciation of Real Estate %.

Value in i860 219,991,180, one % 73»33°>393

Interest on 73,330,393 for five years 21,999,117.90

Value of Personal Estate depreci-
ated one half or lost and destroyed

Value in i860 162,504,020 one V2 81,252,010

Live stock. Annual increase lost and

destroyed for five years. Assumed

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to be equal to the original valua-
tion but it is much greater
Value in i860 61,257,374 61,257,374

Annual value of wheat for five years

Value in i860 5,409,863 x 5 years 27,049,315

Annual value of corn for five years

Value in i860 25,374,133 x 5 126,870,665

629,822,900

White population in i860 826,782, and this wealth which is
wasted and gone would have given each man, woman and child
in the state the sum of $762.

Such are our fearful losses, as a people, in these 8 items alone.
If we press the inquiry further, the aggregate losses of produc-
tive wealth will swell to the enormous sum of not less than
$1,000,000,000. But if this astounding waste of material wealth
appals us, what shall we feel when we learn 200,000 of our
brave citizens have perished in the conflict. This is indeed aw-
ful. They are gone. The father, the husband and the son.
No power on earth can awake them. They will smile, caress
and love no more forever. Peace to your ashes my brave fellow
soldiers, whether friends or foes. You fought and fell bravely
and in looking back I will feel for you with a soldier's heart.
Such my cousin is a cursory view of our losses, all of which,
save the fallen dead, our exertions for the future must restore.
We have no time for repining or quailing over the past, if such
a disposition existed. It is energy, industry and economy we
need now. And in peaceful pursuits, to better ourselves and
others, the past will and must be forgotten.

I write this letter in a spirit of real kindness and I want you
to reply to it with equal candor and frankness.

Give my love to Aunt Polly and Cousin Ral. and believe me
to be as ever

Your affectionate cousin

H. G. FLAGG

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Adams, Hannah 74
Alburtis, Ephraim G. 27

Samuel 21
Allison, Jane 79
Altizer, James Harvey 32

Martha Jane (Riner) 32

Sallie Ann 32
Ambler, Humphrey Keys 73
Baldwin, Isaac 63

Mary (Flagg) 63

Ball, Mary Cecelia 46
Barnard, Esther Joida Ann (Flagg) Min-
ghini 17, 27

James 17, 26, 27

Josiah David 27

Thomas Benton 27
Barnet, see Barnard
Belcher, Gov. Jonathan 69
Benton, Eunice 44, 52
Bernard, see Barnard
Berry, Abigail 74

Elizabeth 74
Berryhill, 77

Frances Ann R. (Hughes) Neill 77
Bigelow, Elizabeth (Flagg) 62

Joshua 62

Mary (Flagg) 62

Samuel 62
Bowen, Hiram 21
Braddock, Gen. Edward 70, 79
Bradstreet, Rev. Nathan 65
Brewster, Charles W 13, 66

Ruth (Foss) 74

Sarah 74

William 75

Broadwell, Ada 26, 44

Samuel 44

Virginia Priscilla (Southwood) 44
Brown, Ella 67

James Stephenson 18

Capt. John 28

Margaret 78

Margaret Elizabeth (Burkhart) 18
Brownlow, Gov. William G. 35
Buck, Isaiah 22
Bullene, Moore and Emory 45
Burem, Ap 34
Burkhart, Anna M. (Summers) 19

Annie Ophelia (Rhoe) 19

Caroline 17

Daniel 17

Davidson Smith 19

John Daniel 18

Margaret ( ) Gallaher 19

Margaret Elizabeth 18

Matilda Rogers 19

R. Jeannie (Hullihen) 19

Robert 17

Ruth Keyes (Flagg) 17, 18

Susan Davidson 18

William Davidson 19
Bumham, Ruth 63
Burr, Edmond Flagg 43

Esther (Flagg) 26, 42

James, Sr. 42, 78

James [1837] 26, 42

Jane Leah (Slemons) 42, 78

Josephine B. (Gottschall) 43

Sophy (Cushionberry) 42

William Burkhart 43

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Calhoun, John Caldwell 36
Campbell, Archibald 79

Catharine 79

Jane (Allison) 79

Leticia (Crockett) 79

Martha Ann 24, 38, 80, 81

Martha Nicholas (Merriman) 38, 80

Mary (Young) 79, 80

Nelson 38, 80

Robert [17 18] 79

Robert [1761] 79, 80

William 79
Carter, Elizabeth 63

John 63

Ruth (Burnham) 63
Carver, Richard 55, 60, 61
Chadbourn, Mary 74
Coffin, Lucretia (Flagg) 65

Peter 65
Cook, Rebecca (Flagg) 62

Stephen 62
Crabbe, Catharine Elizabeth (McKee) 48

Frank 48
Crockett, Leticia 79
Cushionberry, Sophy 42
Cushman, John 74

Sarah (Foss) 74
Cutler, Abigail (Flagg) 63

David 63

Daber, see Darber

Daniels, Mary 45

Darber, Charles Edward 44

Frederick, Sr. 43

Frederick [1829] 26, 43

Frederick [1870?] 43

George 43

Gertrude Madeline 43

Josephine (Nehring) 44

Theresa ( ) 43

Virginia 43

Virginia Caroline (Flagg) 26, 43
Davidson, 17

William 17

Davies, William 70

Dean, Julia Eva (McKee) 48

Summers 48
De Flegg, see Flegg
Dowling, Byron 47

Gertrude Madeline (Darber) 43

H. C. 43

Margaret Flagg (Eichelberger) 47
Drake, Samuel G. 69

Eager, Sarah 65, 71, 72
Eames, Gershom 68

Hannah (Johnson) 68

Mary 68
Eichelberger, Daniel Bedinger Lucas 46

David Smith 45

David Smith [1877] 46

Douglas Slemons 46

Florence Brown (Flagg) 26, 46

Laura May 46

Margaret Flagg 47

Mary (Daniels) 45

Mary (Fiery)

Robert Slaughter [1847] 25, 26, 45

Robert Slaughter [1880] 46

Thomas G. Flagg 25, 46
Emerson, Mary 65

Engle, 48

Estabrook, Abigail (Flagg) 63

Samuel 63
Etter, George 81

Nannie A. (Kincade) 81
Evans, 65

Sarah (Flagg) 65

Fairfax, Lord Thomas 69, 70
Faris, William 20

Faucet, 73

Fiery, Alburtis 46

Mabel 46

Mary Cecelia (Ball) 46
Flagg, (Miller) 42, 49

Abiah ( ) 62

Abigail [1682] 63

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Flagg, Abigail [17 18] 63
Abigail [1722] 63
Ada (Broadwell) 24, 44
Ada Margarite 51
Allen 62

Amelia De la Fayatte 39
Anna (Webster) 65
Anne Ursilla Adaline see Esther Joida

Ann
Arie A. (Hott) 42, 49
Bartholomew 61
Benjamin 62
Benoni 63
Berenice 42, 49
Bertha Warren 30, 47, 78
Beulah Gertrude (Foreman) 42, 50
Mrs. Bill 45
Burr 42, 49

Caroline (Burkhart) 17
Catherine 65
Claude Osbourn
Daniel Burkhart 26, 44
Dorsey Slemons 50
Ebenezer [1678] 63
Ebenezer [1704] 15, 63, 67, 71
Ebenezer [1757] 65
Edmund 13, 64
Eleazer [1653] 62
Eleazer [1670] 62
Elizabeth [1655] 62
Elizabeth [1701] 63
Elizabeth [1794] 17
Elizabeth (Carter) 63
Elizabeth (Foss) 13, 66
Elizabeth (Washington) 67
Elizabeth Roughton (Hughes) 21, 77
Ella (Brown) 67

Emma Elizabeth (Lafever) 25, 41
Esther 26, 42
Esther (Green) 62
Esther Joida Ann 17, 26
Eunice (Benton) 44, 52
Fannie L. Grunden 44, 51
Florence Brown 25, 46

Flagg, Frank Lafever 51
Geddes Broadwell [1889] 44* 5 2
Geddes Broadwell [191 7] 52
George Hite 67
Gershom [1641] 62
Gershom [1669] 62
Gershom [1708] 63
Hannah [1675] 6 3
Hannah [17 16] 63

Hannah ( ) 62

Hannah ( ) 63

Hannah (Leppingwell) 62

Henry 40

Henry Gaither 21, 23, 24, 29, 33, 76,

80, 81, 84
Hilda Kline 42, 49
Horatio Wayne 30
James Morgan South wood 51
Jennie, see Virginia Caroline
John [1643] 61
John [1673] 62
John [1706] 63
John [1743] 65
John [177 1?] 67
John Magnus 17, 19, 77
John R. 67
John Ransom 67
John Shively 21
John Sylvester 57, 60
Joida 17, 26, 27
Joseph Walker 20, 40
Josephine 42
Josiah [17 12] 63
Josiah [1748] 13, 65
Josiah [1769 q 13, 26, 66» 67 71, 72, 76
Josiah David [1809] 17, 26
Josiah David [1879] 42
Julia Slemons 42, 48
Laura (Johnson) 26, 45
Laura J. (Herring) 30
Lizzie 38

Lillian Foreman 51
Louis Charles 44
Louisa Priscilla 51

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Flagg, Lucretia [1741] 65
Lucretia (Keyes) 14, 65, 71
Lydia (Waters) 63
Mamie (Gamble) 44
Margaret 42

Margaret A. (Hughes) 25, 41, 77
Margaret Brown (Slemons) 25, 78
Margaret Hester 38, 40
Margaret Louisa 17
Margaret Melissa 24, 31
Margaret Virginia 44
Margaretta (Shively) 16, 76
Martha Ann (Campbell) 24, 38, 80, 81
Martha Elizabeth Roughton Hughes

Martha Matilda [1797] 17
Martha Matilda [1832] 24, 25, 29
Mary [1657] 62
Mary [1683] 63
Mary [1702] 63
Mary [172 1] 65

Mary [1759] 65
Mary [1881] 45

Mary ( ) 61

Mary (Emerson) 65

Mary (Locke) Richardson 63

Mary (Willis) 63

May Margaret 41

Michael 61

Molly 17

Myrtle Palmer (Thornburg) 42, 49

Nellie 49

Nelson Campbell 39

Oscar H. 67

Paul Macon 51

Pauline 44, 52

Rachel Tanquary 49

Randolph 30

Rebecca 62

Richard 65

Robert 49

Robert Lee 42, 48

Robert Minor 51

Robert Slemons 25, 41, 77

Flagg, Roberta Slemons 41

Rosa Hall 42

Rosannah M. T. (Hunter) 22

Rubamah 17

Ruth 63

Ruth Keyes 17, 18

Sallie Boyd 19, 29, 30

Sally 67

Samuel Broadwell 51

Sarah 65

Slemons 42, 50

Stella Velma (Osbourn) 42, 50

Susan (Hite) 67

Susanna (Fowle) 65

Thomas [161 5] 55, 56, 60, 61

Thomas [1646] 61

Thomas [1677] 63

Thomas [1685] 63

Thomas [17 10] 63

Thomas [1745] *3» *4» *5> 74

Thomas [1767 ?] 13, 66, 67, 71, 72

Thomas George [1803] I 7» l8 » 2 4»
78

Thomas George [1825] 24, 27

Thomas George [1847] 26k 44

Thomas George [1880] 44, 51

Thomas George [1903] 51

Tucker 44

Virginia 51

Virginia Caroline 26, 43

William 61
Flegg, Alger de 56, 58, 59

Alicia 60

Bartholomew 60

Henry de 56

Rawl 57, 58

William 56
Flekkr, Hrolf 57, 58
Folck, Mary 31
Folk, Edward Leesing 32

Lucy Flaherty (Riner) 32
Foreman, Beulah Gertrude 42, 50

Frank Conver 50

Ida Varina (Rinker) 50

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Fobs, Abigail 75
Abigail (Berry) 74
David Laurentson 74
Elizabeth 13, 66, 74
Elizabeth (Berry) Locke 74
Hannah (Adams) 74
Henry 74
Joanna 75
Joannah 75

Joannah ( ) 74

John [1638] 74
John [1680?] 74
Margaret 75

Mary 75

Mary ( ) 74

Mary (Chadbourn) 74

Olive 75

Ruth 75

Sarah 74

Sarah ( ) Goss 74

Sarah (Brewster) 74

Sarah (Waterhouse) 66, 74

Zachariah [17x1] 66, 74

Zachariah [1741] 74

Zachariah [1751J 75
Fowle, Susanna 65
Fox, Laura 51
Franklin, Amelia De la Fayette (Flagg)

39
James W. 39
Fulkerson, Frank 34
Fullerton, — (Burkhart) 17

Gaither, Ari Ann (Hughes) 77

Henry 33, 77

Gallaher, Margaret ( ) 19

Gamble, Mamie 44
Gillenwaters, E. E. 34
Gobs, James 74

Sarah ( ) 74

Gottschall, Josephine B. 43
Green, Esther 62

Hannah (Flagg) 63

Henry 63

Greenough, Ebenezer 65

Mary (Flagg) 65
Gregory, C. L. 44, 52

Katharine 52

May Ada 52

Pauline (Flagg) 44, 52
Griffin, Nancy 77
Grout, Frances 68
Grunden, Fannie Louise 44, 51

Laura (Fox) 51

Samuel Miller 51

Hackney, Lydia 77
Hale, Moses 63
Hall, C. W. 34

Sarah 72
HaHer, Franklin P. 44

Gertrude Madeline (Darber) 44
Hammond, John 67

Sally (Flagg) 67
Hamtramck, John F. 28
Hancher, Rachel Anne 49
Harrison, (Levi) 30

John S. 20

John S., Jr. 20

John Thomas 30

Sallie Boyd (Flagg) 19, 29, 30
Heiskell, Joseph B. 34
Herring, Elizabeth (Miller) 30

Ezra 30

Laura J. 30
Hite, Susan 67

Hoffman, Mary (Lingamfeter) 31
Hott, Arie A. 42, 49

David Fries 49

Rachel Anne (Hancher) 49
Hughes, Ann (Smith) 77

Ann R. 77

Ari Ann 77

David 77

Elizabeth Roughton 17, 21, 77

Frances Ann R. 77

Job 77

Joseph 77

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Hughes, Lizzie 77

Margaret (Mong) 77

Margaret A. 25, 41, 77

Nancy (Roughton) Tanquary 21, 77

Nathaniel, Sr. 21, 77

Nathaniel [1803] 77
Hullihen, M. F. 19

R. Jeannie 19 [73

Humphreys, Catharine (or Ruth) Keyes

David 73
Hunter, Capt. (C. S. A.) 22

John 24

Rosannah M. T. 24

Jackson, Andrew 36

Gen. Thomas Jonathan 22, 29
Johnson, F. M. 45

Hannah 68

Laura 26, 45

Robert 35

Samuel 22
Julian, George W. 30

Keyes, — (Faucet) 73
Asa 68
Catharine 73

Eliza or Elizabeth [1773] 73
Elizabeth [1728] 71
Frances (Grout) 68
Francis or Frances [17 19] 71
Francis [1750?] 73

Gershom [1698?] 14, 15, 65, 67, 68, 72
Gershom [1765 ?] 73
Humphrey [1721] 71, 72
Humphrey [1769?] 73
John [1674] 68
John [1752] 73
Levina 8x
Lucretia65, 71, 73
Luvica (Talbot) 73
Marcella (Wade) 72
Mary (Eames) 68
Ruth [1730?] 14, 15,67,71
Ruth [1775 ?1 73

Keyes, Sarah 73

Sarah (Eager) 65, 71, 72

Sarah (Hall) 72

Solomon 68

Susan (Ward) 73

Thomas 73
Kinkade, Nannie A. 81
Kiphart, 27

Hester Ann (Barnard) 27
Koch, Rachel Tanquary (Flagg) 49

William Philip 49
Kyle, A. A. 34

Lafever, Barbara (Weaver) 41

Benjamin 41

Emma Elizabeth 25, 41
Lamb, Polly 80
Leppingwell, Hannah 62

Michael 62

Levi, 30

Lillard, Mattie Alma (White) 48

Oswald G. 48
Lingamfeter, Elizabeth 31

Jacob 31

John 31

Mary 31

Mary (Folck) 31
Locke, Elizabeth (Berry) 74

John 74

Mary 63
Long, Elizabeth 79

McDill, Jane (Montgomery) 78

Martha 25, 78
McKee, (Engle) 48

(Roush) 48

Boyd Allen 48

Catherine Elizabeth 48

Edward Lee 48

Herbert Mayberry 48

Hilda Kiplinger 48

Hugh 48

James McSheiry 48

Julia Eva 48

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McKee, Julia Slemons (Flagg) 42, 48

Percy Lafever 48

Robert Dorsey 48

William Hugh 42, 48
McKinney, John A. 34
McShirey, Richard 20
Mathews, 27

James 21

Susan (Minghini) 27

William H. 21
Merriman, Jesse 80

Martha Nicholas 38, 80

Polly (Lamb) Wells 80
Miller, 42, 49

Elizabeth 30

Sarah V. 50
Minghini, Esther Joida Ann (Flagg) 17, 26

Joseph 17, 26

Margaret Elizabeth 27

Mary Rosaltha 27

Susan 27
Mong, Margaret 77
Montgomery, Jane 78

Gen. Richard 78
Moory, Jacob 21
Myer, G. W. 29

Nehring, Josephine 44

Neill, Frances Ann R. (Hughes) 77

Lewis 77
Netherland, John 34
North, Eliza (Keyes) 73

Capt George 73

James W. 56

O'Bannon, John 73

Ruth or Catherine (Keyes) 73
Osbourn, Stella V. (Miller) 50

Stella Velma 42, 50

William Blackford 50

Parks, Alexander 25

Phips, Lieut. Gov. Spencer 69

Piles, 73

Lucritia (Keyes) 73

Poisel, Jacob 21
Powell, Samuel 34
Prince, Thomas 69

Pyles, 73

Lucretia (Keyes) 73

Ramsey, 70

Reams, M. J. 40

Reed, Hannah (Flagg) 63

Nathaniel 63
Rhoe, Anne Ophelia 19
Richardson, Mary (Locke) 63
Riner, Mrs. 29

Alice Burkhart 32

Augusta (Strough) 31

Catherine 31

David 24, 30

David Hugh 33

Elizabeth 31

Emmaline Virginia 31, 32

George Henry 3 1

Henry 31

John Daniel 32

Julia (Stankey) 33

Lucy Flaherty 32

Margaret Catherine 32

Margaret Melissa (Flagg) 24, 31

Martha Jane 31

Mary 31

Mary (Folck) Lingamfeter 31

Mary (Lingamfeter) Hoffman 31

Mary Elisabeth 32

Peter 30, 31

Sallie Ann (Altizer) 32

William Thomas 32
Rinker, Ida Varina 50
Rogers, Matilda 19
Rose, John
Roughton, Job 77

Nancy 21, 77

Nancy (Griffin) 77

Roush, 48

Rust, Robert 18

Susan Davidson (Burkhart) 18

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Rutherford, Thomas 72

Santa Anna, Gen. 28
Schurz, Carl 43
Seibert, William Luther 21
Sensendiver, Col. J. 23
Senter, Gov. DeWitt C. 35
Shively, John 15, 16, 76

Margaretta 15, 16, 76

Mary, ( ) 76

Siebert, Amelia Ann 49
Slemons, Agnes Boyd 47

Bertha Warren (Flagg) 30, 42, 47, 78

Gerard Robertson 30, 47, 78

Jane Leah 42, 78

Lucy (Wiltshire) 47, 78

Margaret Brown 17, 25, 78

Martha (McDill) 25, 78

Montgomery [1813] 47, 78

Montgomery, Jr. 78

Robert [1784] 25, 78

Robert, 2d 78

Thomas 78
Smith, 17

Ann 77
Snodeal, 27

Margaret Elizabeth (Minghini) 27
Snyder, Daniel O. 21

John O. 21
Southwood, Virginia Priscilla 44
Stankey, Julia 33
Strough, Augusta 31
Summers, Anna M. 19

Reuben 19
Swan, Levina (Keyes) 71

William 71

Talbot, Luvica 73

William A. 27
Tanquary, Benjamin, Sr. 77

Benjamin [1796] 77

Lydia (Hackney) 77

Nancy (Roughton) 21, 77
Tate, Magnus 16, 19

Thornburg, Amelia Ann (Siebert) 49

Elizabeth Whann 50

Elsie Minor 50

Hilda Kline (Flagg) 42, 49

Hilda Palmer 50

Martha Ruth 50

Mary Emma 50

Myrtle Flagg 50

Myrtle Palmer 42, 49

Robert Flagg 50

Robert Minor 42, 49

Solomon 49

Thomas Solomon 50
Toms, Sam 40
Trainham, C. A. 40
Trossle, Ben 42, 49

Berenice (Flagg) 42, 49

Wade, Marcella 72
Walker, Joseph 40
Wall, James Jackson 32

Margaret Catherine (Riner) 32
Ward, Susan 73
Washington, Elizabeth 67

George 69, 70, 79

Lawrence 69
Waterhouse, Sarah 66, 74
Waters, Lydia 63
Weaver, Barbara 41
Webster, Anna 65

John 64
Wells, 80

Polly (Lamb) 80
West, 77

Lizzie (Hughes) 77
White, 73

Graham 47

Hugh Gaither 48

Margaret Hester (Flagg) 38, 40, 47

Margaret Powers 47

Mattie Alma 48

Sarah (Keyes) 73

Thomas Edmondson 40, 47
Whitmore, Elizabeth ( Whitmore) 63

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Whitmore, Jacob 63

Wickham, Alice Burkhart (Riner) 32

Noah Berry 32
Willis, Emmaline Virginia (Riner) 31, 32

Mary 63

Simon Peter 32

Wilson, (Davidson) 17

Wiltshire, Miss 51

Lucy 47, 78
Wise, Gov. Henry A. 28
Wiswall, Capt. Noah 62
Wolff, John M. 21

Wright, 73

Abigail (Flagg) Cutler 63
George 27

Mary Rosaltha (Minghini) 27
Sarah (Keyes) 73
Stephen 63

Young, Elizabeth (Long) 79
Joseph 75
Mary 79, 80
Mary (Foss) 74

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